Hello everyone!I rushed across the vast plains of the Canadian prairies, aided by the monotonous, deliberate passage of the Greyhound bus. The journey from Winnipeg to Sault-St.-Marie is the longest single leg of my Canadian adventure to date, reminiscent of those gargantuan expeditions undertaken in Argentina, when I would cover distances comparable to travelling between London and Casablanca in a single sitting. Ah, those were the days.The reasoning behin...

Hello everyone! I waved a fond farewell to Saskatoon after deciding to forego Azzedine's tempting offer to stay for the weekend, jumped aboard a Greyhound bus and continued east to Winnipeg, Manitoba. The bus station in Saskatoon was cavernous, populated by cold metallic seats and a chilling draft. Darkness came, but my bus did not: after facing a delay of some 90 minutes in Edmonton after the genius at the central depot gifted us a bus without a permit allow...

Hello everyone! After a fantastic time in Alberta, catching up with my great friends Kelsey and Aja, it was time to head east and on into the unknown: I had never previously strayed any further east in Canada than mid-Alberta and so the excitement built as I sat with Kelsey in the Greyhound departure area, awaiting a bus that would sweep me from Edmonton east to Saskatoon. The provincial capital of Saskatchewan would mark the beginning of my third province and...

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...