Almost the end

So, after 14 weeks of travelling, we've arrived in Vancouver.

We've taken 28 planes, two coaches and ten trains, and used six hire cars to visit 11 countries in three continents. It's been a busy few months and, as you're probably sick of reading by now, we've seen fantastic things.

Our top ten:

- Mount Fuji, Japan
- Miyajima, Japan
- Koalas, orangutans, sun bears, kangaroos, wallabies, dolphins, clown fish, sea lions...
- Agra Fort, India
- Doubtful Sound, New Zealand
- The Golden Temple, India
- The night sky at Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
- Angkor Wat, Cambodia
- Jiufen, Taiwan
- Okinawa, Japan

We haven't put the S-21 museum in Phnom Penh and the Atomic Bomb museum in Nagasaki on the list but they are definitely worth visiting, even if the depths of human cruelty revealed in them are deeply saddening.

So, until our next trip (we haven't done South America or Africa yet...) good bye and thanks for reading!

Fort Langley

Cela fait déjà 2 semaines que nous sommes arrivés sur Vancouver, pour changer les idées nous visitons Fort Langley dimanche après-midi. Il fait 34 degrés sans vent! C'est le site historique de la Colombie-Britannique (c'est tellement rare l'histoire ici), le fort a été reconstruit et est devenu un musée vivant mais il a été établi par la compagnie Hudson's Bay dans les années 1820. Et nous pouvons voir une démonstration de tirs au mousquet.
Il y a aussi beaucoup de vieilles voitures dans le village dont de très belles mustangs :) et Cadillac.

It's already two weeks since we arrived in Vancouver and to do something other than flat/job hunting, we decided to go to Fort Langley on Sunday afternoon (which was baking hot - in the high 30s). Fort Langley is the province's historical town - it was established by the Hudson's Bay Company in the 1820s, making it the oldest settlement in British Columbia. In the old fort itself (now a living museum) the oldest building still standing is a storehouse built in 1842. At the fort we saw a musket demonstration and Guillaume got to hold the gun afterwards. 

There was also some sort of classic car rally going on at the British Columbia Farm Museum (yes, really), so there were lots of Model T Fords. They seem to like old cars in Fort Langley we saw quite a few old Mustangs that Guillaume liked and a Cadillac.