On a time limit today as Etienne is cooking. We’re having pasta so don’t think I have long! We had another lovely day today, with a hike in Lake Louise. We took our crampons/spikes, still not sure what they’re actually called? And went up, up, up towards the “Big Beehive”. We didn’t actually know what …
We’ve left Jasper & are now in Lake Louise! We thought it was famous because of the lake but everyone else here seems to be skiing. We’re not skiing though, not yet. We’re just here for the lake (more skating!). 🙃 There’s some people playing cards on the table opposite us in the hostel & …
Today we went Ice Climbing! It was so good, absolutely loved it. A bit pricey, but we paid aaaaages ago and it was worth every penny. 👌 We set off from Jasper around 10am & got back to our hostel an hour ago, around 4:30pm. The drive to the spot (Tangle Falls) took about an …
Had work at 6am for the second day running today (was 7am prior the day before these too), so pretty tired when combining with the train + driving we’ve been doing. Think I’ll keep this short & sweet*!!! Headed out first thing after my shift towards Pyramid Lake (another recommendation from the Tourist Information man), …
We’ve arrived safely in Jasper. We drove here yesterday from Edmonton, it took 4 hours. I bought new sunglasses and wore them all the way here, even when it was cloudy. 😎 Jasper is beautiful – the pic below doesn’t really capture it, but gives you a rough idea… It’s bloody freezing. In fact, freezinger …
We’re in Edmonton now. I’m currently sat in our Hostel working a LiveChat shift, luckily it’s quiet so I can multi-task. Our plan for the day is to drive over to Jasper (with our Communauto) and then nothing from there. I wrote a really detailed breakdown of how we passed the time in my last …
Sat on the train as I write this… on our way to Edmonton. Choo Choo! So far it’s been almost 22 hours. We set off yesterday at 21:30 Central Time and it’s now 17:56 Mountain Time. (Not sure of the abbreviations, maybe CST/MST?) The train is currently stopped. This seems to happen a lot. I …
So let me start off by saying: I loved Winnipeg! When we mentioned to people in Ottawa/Quebec/Toronto that we were coming here we got the odd “Why are you going THERE?!” as if it was an old dead town with nothing going on. Well, maybe it is normally(?) but this weekend was super cool, so …
Today we flew from Toronto to Winnipeg. We were going to take the train, but the flight was less than a third the price with ‘Flair Air’… sounds super legit right? For those that don’t know me well, I’m really not a fan of flying, so taking a crappy airline was a big step for …
Today I had the full day off, so we were headed out to Niagara Falls. By distance it’s not too far from Toronto, but Canada is yet to discover fast trains so it still took 2 hours. (It was actually serviced by Amtrak, so maybe none of North American has found out about quick trains …