Today is going to be a long day because tonight we have a greyhound bus to Vancouver. We checked out of the room at twelve, we were able to get a little extension. Could have done with a few more hours to be honest. We left our bags at reception, and took a walk back into Jasper. We walked around looking for something to eat, and ended up having burgers in Whistlers Pub. It had turned into out local bar in Jasper. (This is the bar that has urinals in the toilet t...

Waking up to see the dirty coffee cup with the half and half cream and milk mixture and cereal dried to the side wasn't very nice. The smell wasn't great either, our room was pretty warm. Feeling ok - No hangover. We got ready and headed into Jasper armed with our washing. It had been a while since we had done any. So we needed to wash all our clothes. We had breakfast in a place called smitty's. In fact it was 11:30, we actually ordered lunch. Honestly it wasn'...

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! It was nice to have a lay in for once! I don't think we got up until late, at least 11 o'clock. It was a hundred times better than our last night in Banff. Today we planned to go on a long walk, we walked into the town first to check it out. As I had expected it was very quiet. It consisted of a couple of streets with shops, bars and restaurants. We walked around in about 5 minutes and saw everything they had. Once we found a superma...

After very little sleep in the hostel from hell, it was time to leave Banff. It has been a great couple of days, and I have really enjoyed this town. I am sure it is even more beautiful in the winter! A great place to come skiing! Getting out of my bunk was a little like mission impossible, I really struggled to get down with the very limited headroom. People were coming home all hours of the night, and when we had our alarms go off at 6:45 I didn't hold back ma...

Today we were moving from our private and very nice room in the HI hostel dorm on Tunnel mountain to the Banff International Hostel. We headed to downtown Banff on the bus and walked about 10 minutes to the new hostel. It looks ok, not as nice as the one we have just checked out of. We put our packs in storage and headed to the river Bow, as today's activity is canoeing!! It was pretty cloudy today not the bright blue sky that we have been having. We put our lif...