Dad rang this morning which was really nice to hear from him. Was a little choked after speaking with him. Booked up a three part activity today - horse riding, canoeing and the Banff Gondola. Walked to Bow Falls againg today, but this we walked along the other side of the river. It ws great to see the falls from another perspective. We ventured more so along the bank and saw some amazing scenery. Spent a good few hours just walking around. The weather was even...

Recovered from our long coach journey by having a lye in today. Got up around 09:00 to find that my feet and ankles were still swollen from the long arse coach ride and that I still ached. We extended our stay here at the Hi Banff Alpine hostel for two more nights, after going to the Castle Mountain Wilderness hostel for three nights as we feel there is alot to see here in Banff. While we booked up another two nights we enquired how to get to Castle Mountain fro...

.......After two hours on the long bus journey we stopped off at Vancouver again and transferred buses after waiting around an hour in the Grey Hound garage, where a queue of a few odd ones started to form! It was around midnight by this time and me and Amy were hoping and praying they weren't waiting for the same bus and we actually started to wonder if getting the night bus was actually a good idea. I think we were pretty spooked because at one point we were ev...