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 ...