Hello everyone! Kelsey arrived in Canmore on the back of attending a family wedding of her own ('tis the season) and we wasted little time finding a cafe in which to enjoy a leisurely lunch and catch-up. We sat outside in the warm sunshine filling one another in on our most recent adventures, whilst happily munching our way through delicious bagels crammed full of smoked Canadian bacon, cheese, egg and mixed vegetables - no prizes for guessing who was responsi...

Hello everyone! At long last it is time to move on from British Columbia and recount events from my time spent in the second province on the way from west to east. This summertime trip to Alberta returned me to many of the locations visited during my Christmas excursion here: whilst I was favourably struck by the interesting differences inherent when visiting such places in both the deepest depths of winter and the height of the warmer months of the year, none...

Hello everyone! Well, this is it; my final Christmas entry, concluding my wonderful stay in Alberta. After another day of necessary recovery following on from our New Year's exploits, Kelsey, Seb, Todd and I packed into two cars and drove west out of Calgary, following one of Canada's most scenic drives into the Rocky Mountains. Our destination was the winter ski resort of Lake Louise, the biggest such resort in terms of the number of runs anywhere in Canada. ...

Hello everyone! Our final morning in Jasper dawned bleak and damp: the clouds laden and the roads treacherous. After some consideration and with great reluctance, we turned our back on the Icefield Parkway - in any case, much reduced in scenic splendour obscured by the dank, disorientating fog - and retraced our route back east, towards Edmonton and Highway 2, the main arterial motorway connecting that city to its southern sister and our destination, Calgary. ...

Hello everyone! Hello and a belated hello indeed. It has been a whole month since I last wrote here, promising an increased output. Alas, I have once again fallen short of my stated aim and to compound my sense of guilt, logging onto my faithful blog-page this afternoon I have stumbled across three recent message-board posts. Alongside the much-appreciated festive message from Aunty Sue, Uncle Steve and my amazing cousins Jo and Ali, this brings my message-c...