Overview of our trips in photos
Here are some pictures of the next few days of our eastcoast trip. More (text and picture) updates will follow! 
July 9 Quebec City
July 10 Quebec City – Rimouski
July 11 Rimouski – St. Charles (New Brunswick)
July 12 St. Charles – Stanhope (P.E.I)
Overview of our trips in photos
Here are some pictures of the next few days of our eastcoast trip. More (text and picture) updates will follow! 🙂
July 5 Maitland – Sussex
July 6 Sussex – Grand Manan Island
July 7 Grand Manan Island – Harvey
July 8 Harvey – Quebec City
OMG, 327 photos in 4 days…. this is quite the roadtrip! We selected the best of the best to share with our readers 🙂
Enjoy!
Just a few more days and we’ll be packing up… We are leaving Yellowknife on July 1st. It’s getting real now. Bas is finishing the school year and Judith has started organizing our stuff and our trip, since she had her last day at work June 3rd. And the rest of the time we’re just taking in every minute of our stay here, hanging out with friends and enjoying the gorgeous summer weather in the Knife. It’s been +25 Celsius over the last couple of days, and 24-hour daylight, which was of course great for the Aboriginal Day festivities (June 21st). It was almost too hot! We’re having the best weather of all of Canada these days…. can you believe that just a couple of weeks ago, it was still freezing?! Yup, that’s the North! 🙂
Enjoy the pictures below. Our next batch may come from a different part of Canada, since we’re going on an eastcoast roadtrip, starting in Halifax, in the first three weeks of July. We’ll make sure to keep you updated!
Time is flying, once again… just another month and we’ll be leaving Yellowknife! Everything is going so fast now, it’s unbelievable. We’re starting to experience all kinds of ‘last times’. We are very much enjoying every single minute, and are keeping ourselves really busy! Judith will have some more time to breath as of next week, as her last day at work is June 3rd. Bas needs to hang on a little longer, but definitely wants to finish this school year in a strong way.
Here are some pictures of our adventures in the last couple of weeks. Of course, one of the main highlights was the wedding of Melissa and Cam. Missy is Bas’ cousin, down south in Abbotsford. The last time we visited them was almost 3 years ago, way before our Yellowknife-life had started. We surprised the whole family by flying down for the wedding; only the couple’s MC – Bas’ third-cousin Grace – knew about us coming and she had graciously offered their cabin for us to stay in. What a wonderful welcome!
We are now planning our roadtrip to the Eastcoast of Canada (PEI, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Quebec) and have already booked a couple of accommodations and contacted a couple of people that we know who have offered their homes to spend some nights. We will keep you posted of our travels and adventures. Check back soon 🙂
Hello friends and family!
Time for an update. We have some major news to share…. (drumroll)… we are leaving Yellowknife and going back to the Netherlands in July…
We needed to make a decision about what we were to do after the summer and after some careful deliberations we made our decision.
Although the prospects for work for Bas look good, he still doesn’t have a job offer for a teaching position next year; therefore, it will be very difficult for him to get his work permit in order in time for the new school year. Besides that, Judith hasn’t been able to apply for her work permit either, since we haven’t heard about the outcome of the Labour Market Opinion yet.
Rather than having the decision made for us – by not granting us the work permits on time, we’ve made the decision ourselves; the result is that we’ve decided to go back to the Netherlands… We have mixed feelings about this situation, but we think it is for the better. We can focus on our careers back home and look back at two amazing years in the North of Canada. We will miss many things and many people here in Yellowknife, which has become our second home.
There will be a lot of things to take care of (selling and shipping our belongings, etc.). Therefore, Judith planned to spend her last month in Yellowknife off, so she can take care of the things to do, while Bas can finish the final weeks of the school year in reasonable peace and quietness. Consequently, Judith has just resigned and her last day at Kellett Communications will be June 3rd.
We’ve booked our flight and will be arriving in Amsterdam on July 23. However, we will leave Yellowknife July 1st, because we’re planning a road trip in Eastern Canada (Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Quebec) before we leave Canada. Lots of things to look forward to.
Let us know if you have any questions. For now, we leave you with some more pictures of this amazing place…
Hi there!
Long time no see… I know, it’s been a month or so! Sorry ‘bout that! We have been busy entertaining guests and spending some well-deserved time with just the two of us after that. But now it’s time for an update, because we still owe you pictures from Judith’s mom Maria on a snowmobile (!), some fun material that wasn’t included in the guest blog from Ank & Stijn, and pictures from Volker’s stay with us in the beginning of April. It was hard to choose from approx. 1150 (!!!) photos, but here’s a selection for you.
Also, have a look at some new photos and a video on Shane’s blog, Life in the Knife, taken at Judith’s choir performance of the Brahm’s Requiem, at the end of March. Pretty amazing stuff!
After spending 2 weeks in the USA, we flew up north to visit Bas and Judith and experience some of that northern living.
We had a good flight. Lone and Bas picked us up at Yellowknife Airport and gave us a sightseeing tour right away.
We saw the Snowcastle (from the outside, we would visit the inside and the Snowking himself later on), drove on the Ice Road – tick-off list #1 – saw the Bristol Momument and drove through N’Dilo. When Judith got home from work, we had dinner at the Black Knight Pub, where Stijn ate his first bison burger.
On Friday, Lone took Stijn for ski-dooing. Ank’s turn was a day later (tick-off list #2). Boy, that was awesome. No accident (at least not official), only sore muscles! At night we had dinner over at Lone’s, where we met Stéphan and Alice. It was a great evening; we had lots of fun.
During the weekend, we watched ski-doo races, dogsled races and an amazing aurora (tick-off list#3) and had a great walk at Cameron Falls. We ploughed throught knee-deep snow, crossed the river over the ice, and drove to the end of the Ingraham Trail. Funny that a highway – as it’s called – suddenly ends!
Monday we had a lazy day: we slept in and walked through Yellowknife’s Old Town, while Bas stayed home to prepare an excellent Greek dinner.
Today, dogsledding was on the agenda (tick-off list #4). Awesome, as you can see in the pictures below.
Still some days left of our trip to this side of the Atlantic. We’re having a blast!
Cheers! And have a good one!
Ank & Stijn
Speciaal voor alle thuisblijvers… (Epko, Ireen…… 😉 ) zijn hier weer wat foto’s!
And for all the non-Dutchies: enjoy more photos of Maria’s stay in Yellowknife. We’ve had a great time together. Bas and Judith showed her almost everything there’s to be seen in the Knife! 🙂
By the way… we might be posting a few more pictures tomorrow… because we had some more adventures today (snowshoeing and ski-dooing… but haven’t found time to sort the pictures yet!) 😉
Hi all,
Judith’s mom, Maria, arrived safely in Yellowknife last Friday. We’ve already spent a wonderful weekend together and here are some pictures to show what Maria looks like in a parka 😉 We are looking forward to 10 more days of spending time together. We will keep you posted!