I managed to get some sleep on all 3 buses despite them all being fairly rickety. We stopped off around 9am to have breakfast. There wasn't a great deal to see scenery wise on the journey, it wasn't until we actually went through to 'Jasper National Park' that the scenery was so lovely. For miles and miles there was lots of lakes, fir trees, and snow capped mountains either side of the bus- it was beautiful. It has actually been one month today that Kelly and I ...

I've missed out Thursday and Friday's blogs as we didn't do a whole lot. One hostel, 16 nights, approx 6-7 separate bookings, 4 rooms and 12 room mates later it's time to check out of the HI-Banff Alpine!! We were catching another night bus so we stored our bags in the hostel and headed into town for one last wander. Despite Banff being such a small town there were still shops we hadn't been into. They actually had shops dedicated to two of my favourite things-...

We had to check out of our room this morning ready to move into another this afternoon so after breakfast we headed into town and did the Fenland trail which is a woodland walk, and also the trail to the Vermilion Lakes. They were nice but they had quite an eerie feel about them. We weren't able to check into our room until after 3pm so we had a mooch around town and grabbed a tea and shared the most amazing chocolate muffin I think i've ever tasted! After this...

Despite getting up early and giving ourselves plenty of time to get ready we still ended up rushing for the bus. We had to rush for the coach too once we got off the bus because the Banff buses are only every 40 minutes and the best one for us to catch this morning only gave us 15 minutes to make it to the Greyhound station and the coaches are only every 4-5 hours!! Anyway we made it to Canmore and before we even got off the bus I was beginning to regret it. It w...

Today we went on a couple of trails. The first was to the 'Cave & Basin' which is where the hot springs were first dicovered leading to the start of Canada's first national park. Disappointingly both the cave and the basin is closed at the moment as they are re-furbishing it to increase it's appeal as a tourist destination I think and isn't due to re-open until 2012!! We could see through the window to the basin but it just looked like an abandoned swimming p...