DISCLAIMER: This entry is pretty lengthy. I an promise that most others will not be this meaty. I am writing this on my flight to the Philippines and have gone a little more in depth that I normally would!! So my Asian journey began at Newcastle Airport. Got there 3 hours before becuase of my connecting flight to Singapore. My mam's famous last words as I was heading off up the escalator was that it would be ok as Newcastle is big. She backtracked slightly "w...

DISCLAIMER: This entry is pretty lengthy. I an promise that most others will not be this meaty. I am writing this on my flight to the Philippines and have gone a little more in depth that I normally would!! So my Asian journey began at Newcastle Airport. Got there 3 hours before becuase of my connecting flight to Singapore. My mam's famous last words as I was heading off up the escalator was that it would be ok as Newcastle is big. She backtracked slightly "w...

So after a week in Viking (pop 1000) with Krista, I arrived in Calgary yesterday. Today I got a phone sorted. Tomorrow I job hunt. Thursday Pub Crawl. Friday conquer the world?!!

Last full day of our road trip and we all woke up late and in Kay's case extremely hungover.A bit of shopping and a lovely lunch in Banff and then we decided it was time for our final stop: a hotel.That's right, we treated ourselves to a night in a hotel in Canmore, that had a pool, hot tub and waterslide. And best for me, coz im such a wriggler I got a queen bed to myself :oDOur final supper was another A&W burger, this time a grandpa burger for me (a sirloi...

En Route to Banff National Park we first stopped off at the Athabasca Falls, but we were starting to agree that once you've seen one falls, you have kinda seen your fill for a while!We drove up the icefield parkway where our next stop was the Columbia Icefield. Many glaciers on a field of snow and ice, it was pretty darn cold after snowing for 5 hours the day before, but it was beautiful, we headed up to the top in a speciality snow mobile, with 5 foot high tires...