It's 9°C in Canada at the moment and as I sit in my chair looking out at the buds only just starting to appear on the trees, I am reminiscent of a summer hike with my sister in one of the most beautiful

I have a Starbucks very close to my work and for a while when we moved and had our things still packed I was going there everyday to get my coffee fix. Buying coffee at a cafe in Canada is much more expensive

Well, its time to start the first project in our house. I'm building a mudroom in our basement, right off the garage. This is where I enter the house after work and the current set up has the garage entrance

I've been gathering and saving these street art photos for some time now and I think that I'm about due to share them. I haven't taken part in CCC's Street Art Contest in a while either so that makes me

The next location that I visited with my sister was the the small town of Pierrefonds. It was located about 40 minutes from my home and the town boasts a massive mideival castle called the Chateau de

Who likes my title? It rhymes. You can thank my wife for that one. Welcome to another Leaky20 life update. Nothing too special, just happenings in my daily life. But where to begin? Some of the flowers

After the Louvre and walking around the Latin Quarter a little my sister and I stopped for a drink at an outdoor Cafe. It was probably around 10:30 - 11:00 in the morning at that point but we had been

This is another nostalgia post similar to my one about Goosebumps books from a while back. Recently my mom dropped off a box of my childhood Teenage Mutal Ninja Turtles figurines that she had been storing

Continuing on with our walking tour my sister and I left the Royal Palace of Paris and made our way to the Louvre Museum. Just outside the gate, we were approached by a group of people holding clipboards

The house that we recently bought has an office space in it with some built in bookshelves and some decent wood paneling that was installed back in the 1980s. The wood isn't oak or anything. Its actually

The next stop during my sister's visit to France was Paris. She had never been to the city and Paris is a must see location when traveling to France, by anyone'sstandards I'm sure. I think that it would

I've been to Chantilly Castle many times and have written about it on Hive in the past. It was close to my home in France when we were living there so naturally we went to see it many times during our

It's been a while since I've done a #beersaturday post so I think it's about time that I did one. Here are a few drink experiences that we had in Germany during out trip to Bavaria. Old photo, different

Moving day round two. The first attempt at moving failed due to a bad snow storm and after that we were living in our old house with a portion of our stuff over at the new place. It was just the stuff

Check out my entry for #TheCoffeeShopPrompt and go to the Cinnamon Cup Coffee community to see if you would like to participate as well. Back in the summer of 2022 when we were still living in France my

Last Saturday was supposed to be our moving day but everything went to hell in a hand-basket once the weather station announced that a severe snow storm was on its way. It was said to start Friday afternoon

One of my grandparents was from the Netherlands and I remember that Apple Stroop was always a staple in their household. We used to spread it on rye bread along with a thin slice of gouda cheese and it

This will be our last stop of our trip to Germany. On our drive back home to France we hit up the city of Baden Baden and spent a few hours there eating breakfast and walking around the city. It wasn't

A quick post about some meals and food that we ate in Germany. I hope you enjoy. The first meal was a dinner in Nuremberg on day one. It had a sort of medeival theme to it, which was fun and somewhat unique.

The next stop of our trip to Bavaria Germany was our day three visit to the city of Regensburg. Here we go! Regensburg is situated along the banks of the Danube river, and is about an hour and 20 minute