HI I’M DARREN.

Hello, bonjour, hola, guten tag, merhaba, marhaba, ola, ciao, halo, namaste, ohayo, salaam, ni hao, nay hoh and a general hi to anyone I’ve left out.

My name is Darren and I come from northern England where I have worked for over 25 years as a criminal defence lawyer. I live with my wife Ann who I married in 2014 in the Canadian ski resort of Kicking Horse, in the British Columbia Rocky Mountains. Ann works as a nurse sister and if she isn’t looking I’ll confide in you for the purposes of this blog that she is in her mid forties, and revels in her 6 year age deficit to me.

We are widely travelled, both off the peg summer hols style and rather more independently, having spent much time soaking up the beauty of Western Canada, the US, much of Europe and especially off the beaten track Scotland…