Today was the start of the drive back to Vancouver, the beginning of the end but with plenty to look forward to on the way! To start the day we headed up to the Cross Country Skiing trails of Canmore, the guy in the rental store reccommended a nice little 6km loop to get us going. Well that was more than enough, a very good workout! It was quite impressive watching some of the skiers even though we couldnt quite get the hang of skating. I stuck to the trails whi...

So, we should have been writing to you from Banff this evening, things didn't go as planned. So here we are in Revelstoke! We had another ridculously early start as we still haven't got to grips with the time difference. We were showered and had eaten breakfast by half past six. Although we didn't hit the road until eight o'clock when the sun had come up, and it was looking like a gorgeous day. We knew today was going to be a killer of a drive. The distance we...

Today was the start of our journey out to the Canadian Rockies, we had decided yesterday to ease ourselves into the driving gently with a little four our stint to start us off to Kamloops. However, the first task of the day was to pick up the car. Sounds simple enough, but the car rental office was a twenty minute walk through the city in the pouring rain and carrying all our bags. The second task was to actually get the car, we had trouble with Hertz on our pre...

We have finally arrived in Canada and after being in darkness for nearly 24 hours with flights and time differences, we couldnt wait for the sun to come up this morning so we could get out and look around! Our first impressions were that it seemed a great, friendly city and with a little advice from our hostel owner, really easy to navigate. We're staying in a lovely guesthouse in Downtown Vancouver. The owners have renovated an old city house themselves, and ...