The Travels of BBQboy and Spanky
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7 Travel Resolutions Every Adventurer Should Make for 2026. After 5 years of working towards Permanent Residency in Spain, 2026 is the year we get back to full-time travel. With the new year days …
What Air Canada (and other airlines) do that you should know. We were coming to Canada because my father had a brain tumour and was dying. He was given 3 to 4 months and based on that we booked our …
What’s Canada like in 2025? I had heard the grumblings from Canadians visited us in Spain. They complain about the cost and availability (or lack of) of housing in Canada, about healthcare and the …
Planning and Resources for Slow Travel. Slow travel is the most sustainable way to travel long term. It allows you to travel the world affordably (often more affordably than you did back home), more …
When Iberia won’t pay your compensation claim Latest Update December 4, 2025. It’s been a year since the incidence happened and I’m still chasing Iberia, pestering the AESA (the Spanish …
How to spend 2 days in Quebec city. We spent 2 months in Quebec City this summer. It was a return to the area where I was born (right across the river in Levis) and where I spent the first 8 years of …
A Review of our Level 8 Luggage. We’ve really changed the way we’ve travelled over the last 10 years. When we first started travelling full-time, we had huge backpacks (the ones outdoorsmen use) and …
A Local’s guide to Montreal. I’m always blogging about exotic foreign places and it hit me that I’ve never posted photos or written anything about the city where I lived for 25 years. But it …
Celebrating Two Lives. Both my parents died this year, my mom in March, my dad in August. I’ve always said that this blog was first and foremost a place to record my memories and thoughts. That’s …
