Our June Journeys

For the last three years we have travelled during the month of June. We wanted to visit places that are too cold to visit during our extended winters.  We noticed there were great unexplored parts of the globe that we wanted to see firsthand. 

• In 2023, Jay and I took our first June trip. We stayed in an Airbnb in Nice, France that year and explored the Côte d'Azur. 
•  In 2024, we flew into Berlin, Germany and travelled through Poland and Lithuania, returning from Riqa, Latvia. These were our travels in Northern Central Europe. 
•  In 2025, we flew into Venice, Italy and travelled through Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, and returned from Bucharest, Romania. This trip introduced us to Southern Central Europe.

Just before we left for last winter, at the end of October 2025, we made a decision for this June.  We got tickets on Air Canada to Casablanca, Morocco via Montreal.  We leave on May 27th and get back to Vancouver on June 24th.

 

Unlike past June journeys, we will not visit any new countries.  Rather, we will just explore many new areas with a single country we briefly saw sixteen years ago.   Back in 2010, I put this into a summer eJournal entry:

It's a done deal. Although we had been following the air ticket prices on Expedia for a few weeks, last night we pulled out a credit card and made it official. We're going to Spain in the autumn! The little red circle shows Malaga, as that's the city where we'll land and depart. Those dates are Monday, September 6th to Tuesday, October 5th.

We've got a lot of time to plan an suitable itinerary. We want to go to Lisbon, Portugal and Morocco as well as travelling in southern Spain. Of course we'll scale the Rock of Gibraltar too. This should be a lot of fun! 

Jay and I were both working in 2010 but we were fortunate to have jobs which provided us flexible scheduling. We remember Tangier, Marrakech, and Fes with fondness.  

We may well transfer through those cities but we're starting to get serious on picking a circle route that takes us to the famous, Blue City and into the Altas Mountains as well as the southern Atlantic coast.  A fun part of travel for Jay and me is doing research before putting feet on the ground.   We leave in about five weeks, so we're beginning to study in earnest.