Three and a half years after booking our Canadian / Alaskan trip we are finally about to start touring, I’m sure it’s going to be worth the wait……Highlights this year include a 9 day round trip on the Rocky Mountainer from Vancouver and 10 day cruise up the inner passage from Vancouver to Alaska and back to Seattle. We have a number of shore excursions to blog about, as well as catching up with my third cousin Annabelle on Vancouver Island, who I haven’t seen for 40 plus years. We were last aboard the Oceania ship Regatta in 2017, when we had lunch whilst she berthed in Burnie, and look forward to re boarding her.

The fun will continue with a flight onto Heathrow, and our yearly cruise aboard Prime Thyme. An out and back cruise this year, onto the Wey, Thames and then the Kennet and Avon Canal. We will try to get as close to Bristol as time permits, and will be cruising with Penny aboard Iris, another fellow Sea Otter owner who keeps an eye on Prime Thyme.

As usual I shall endeavour to do a daily blog, internet connection permitting. A quick word on the camera gear being used this year…..A Leica V Lux, 20mp 25-400mm bridge camera, will be used for quick shots on the run when time does not permit lens changes and active stabilisation helps, think train trip or polar bears……A Leica M10R, 40mp rangefinder, will be used for more planned composition, and exposure experimentation with the 3 lenses being carried, a SUPER ELMAR 21mm wide angle, MS optics APOQUALIA 28mm pancake walk around, and SUMMICRON 50mm standard prime. I shall try my hand at some short video grabs, using a Sony ZV1. Finally a rekindled interest in film, especially Medium format, will be met with a Voightlander Bessa 111 670 folding camera, though it’s unlikely we’ll be able to get the film developed and scanned whilst on the move.

I look forward to re commencing the blog this W/E, once we’ve got the dogs settled with our house sitter Theresa, till then we will endeavour to stay Covid free….