Month: October 2025

Blue Skies…

17 October 2025Uncategorized admin

We are having some amazing days; the one above reached 26 degrees! The sky was so blue!! Definitely a hammock type of day! The vege garden is already flourishing, seems earlier this year, or maybe I am more organised than usual….. I am expecting a good asparagus crop this year, was thrilled when I saw …

Signs of Spring…

4 October 202515 January 2026Uncategorized admin

My flower garden has really come into its own after years of building and nurturing, it is so pretty 🦋 The last of the gravel has been put in, resolving the mud situation. Feeling pretty happy about that! The girls have decided the vacant pig house is a great place to nest and are laying …

Hello! My name is Helen, I am a Kiwi, married to Rich, a Canadian.

Rich and I met climbing Machu Picchu in Peru. I was living in the UK at the time, and Rich in Manitoba, Canada. I had a job in Guernsey to get back to and so started our very long-distance relationship. Not easy but we made it work, and in hindsight it was a unique, but good way of really getting to know each other, as at that distance communication is vital 😊

Eventually I moved to Canada, and a few months later we got married in beautiful British Columbia where Rich is from. Two years later in rural Manitoba, our son Luca was born

Together with we are wanderers. We have always trod a path a little different to others, and continue to find our road leads us in directions that surprise even us.

I started this blog in May 2018, we were living in Newfoundland at the time, having moved there from Nova Scotia about a year previously. This blog has followed our journey from Newfoundland to Costa Rica to New Zealand. There are more moves to come as our lives change once again as Luca's schooling comes to an end.

Join us on our adventures as we follow our path and see where it leads.....