Not wanting to stay in the same country we decided to drive all across Canada from East to West and took a month to do it. A great trip but very different to Road Tripping in the USA.
Seriously we are not getting the luck of the weather, we had planned on stopping in Winnipeg for 2 nights yesterday when we arrived it poured with rain but we were not too bothered because we knew we had the next day to explore, well we did have a nice meal in the “Keg” which is the second time in that chain of restaurants, the food was lovely and we avoided the rain in the evening, we woke up this morning went down for a hearty breakfast ready for the…
Read MoreToday we had planned on staying in Regina and well you guest it, it was shite. We had a great meal last night and a few drinks and really relaxed which was nice but the city is another boring dull place, we did drive around and chose not to stay. It really is getting a joke now how dreary things are here in this part of Canada, we have done more than 4,200km and unless your interested in museums or history there is not a lot to see apart from…
Read MoreNot far to travel today, last night we had a good nights sleep and today we only have about 280km to travel, for those of you that don’t know we are meeting up with Lorna’s parents on the evening of the 18th at Calgary so we cant go any further than Calgary, so we decided to stop at Medicine hat and then maybe Lethbridge but after we got to Medicine Hat we decided to stay for 2 nights here and then drive the short distance to Calgary on the 18th…
Read MoreSeriously sorry nothing to report today, we stopped over for another night in Medicine Hat because Calgary was not a long way away and we need to be there tomorrow evening to meet and pick up Lorna’s parents, so we just had a lazy day, there is not much to see here today unfortunately, as any events are either later on, or we missed them, (no surprises there then) Tonight we did go back to “Earls” for our evening meal which was great, the weather has picked up and we…
Read MoreToday we were in a completely different mind set, we have just had 2 days in a place that didn’t have much to offer other than good food and drink and more importantly tome to relax and charge our well drained and tested batteries. We are heading for Calgary and are picking up Ken & Sandy tonight who will be joining us for the remaining 2 weeks. We have every expectation that the next 2 weeks are going to be full of things to do and see and are really…
Read MoreWell today was going to be the start of some real fun, so we have put the last 2 weeks behind us and are grabbing the opportunities that are now on offer and today was no exception, Ken and Sandy are now with us and they have definitely picked the right place to start, they were awake at 5:00am this morning thanks to jet lag but were keen to get out and explore the City. First on the list after breakfast was the Olympic park and some mountain biking, well…
Read MoreThis morning we got up for breakfast with no real urgency but if we had known that breakfast was going to take over an hour for a few fried and poached eggs we would have got down earlier. This trip has so far not given us any reason to believe that each day something has to go wrong or someone has to piss us off, they say this a “trip of a lifetime” and we can assure you it will only happen once in our lifetime. Anyway enough of the…
Read MoreNot a long trip today which is nice, about 2 and a half hours driving to Jasper National Park, we pre booked into a hotel last night for 2 nights because it was looking like the hotels were getting booked up and it was the weekend so we settled on the Tonquin Inn which was a bit of a gamble because it looked quite old and the reviews on Trip adviser were mixed so we had no idea what to expect. Anyway after a drive that saw the scenery change…
Read MoreWell after last nights ordeal we were both not feeling too alert thanks to the lack of sleep but after breakfast which I skipped we got into the car and headed for Maligne Lake which was about 40km from Jasper, the route to the lake was apparently a great place for wildlife, it was not long before we came across a dear by the side of the road and it didn’t seem to mind us being right next to it, so a few photo’s later we continued to the lake,…
Read MoreWe checked out of our hotel this morning after breakfast and packed our bags yet again and set off for Banff National Park, en-route we were going to take in as many sights as possible, one of the things we decided to do, was create some rock piles, we have been seeing these little creations on the side of the road all the way from Ontario, so we stopped the car and started to build 4 rock creations. hoping that they will stay there forever, who knows, we will never…
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