Our flights to Japan with Air China meant that we had the option to do a 9 hour layover in Shanghai on the way back from Tokyo. China isn’t somewhere I have any immediate plans to visit, so it seemed like a good way to get our feet on the ground of a new country …
There’s nothing quite like ending a trip on a bang, so when I realised our cheapest way home from Vancouver was via the biggest hell hole in the world*, I started looking into other options. And being me, I came up with a crazy idea, which somehow worked out perfectly: a day in New York …
I’ve been in Vancouver for almost a week – and what a week it’s been! It began with a two-day journey with some tough goodbyes, and, in typical Canadian fashion, ended with beautiful mountains and great hospitality. The journey itself wasn’t too bad; the flights were pretty good and amazingly all four were on schedule …
