While other 20-year-olds were heading for the all-night discos of the Mediterranean, Hannah Abbott chose to Go West…

Cortes

A Mecca for East-coast Canadian travellers partial to a bit of peace and love, the islands off the West coast of British Columbia would have remained undiscovered for me were it not for a friend of a friend of a friend. Well, one island in particular: Cortes.

I spent a month there, variously staying with old friends, crashing at new friends’, sleeping under the stars, and living in a refurbished 1955 school bus. It’s just that kind of place.

We certainly got there in style. More >