Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! It was nice to have a lay in for once! I don't think we got up until late, at least 11 o'clock. It was a hundred times better than our last night in Banff. Today we planned to go on a long walk, we walked into the town first to check it out. As I had expected it was very quiet. It consisted of a couple of streets with shops, bars and restaurants. We walked around in about 5 minutes and saw everything they had. Once we found a superma...

After very little sleep in the hostel from hell, it was time to leave Banff. It has been a great couple of days, and I have really enjoyed this town. I am sure it is even more beautiful in the winter! A great place to come skiing! Getting out of my bunk was a little like mission impossible, I really struggled to get down with the very limited headroom. People were coming home all hours of the night, and when we had our alarms go off at 6:45 I didn't hold back ma...

Today we were moving from our private and very nice room in the HI hostel dorm on Tunnel mountain to the Banff International Hostel. We headed to downtown Banff on the bus and walked about 10 minutes to the new hostel. It looks ok, not as nice as the one we have just checked out of. We put our packs in storage and headed to the river Bow, as today's activity is canoeing!! It was pretty cloudy today not the bright blue sky that we have been having. We put our lif...

I had a great night sleep. In the morning Chris told me he had to turn the heating off as he was sweating! Oh, and I spent most of the night grinding my teeth! (I think one day I'm going to have warn my teeth away!). It was nice to have our own room. Today we had planned to head into the town centre and visit the information centre to see what we could do during our time in Banff. In the discovery tour office we managed to get a lot booked which means we have a ...

Today we were leaving the city of Calgary and heading into the Canadian Rockies! We had a very relaxed morning. Our bus was picking us up at 12:45 from the greyhound bus station. Had a bit of a lay in before packing up again. Everything is starting to have a place in my rucksack! We didn't have any breakfast as it wasn't very nice the other day. Then headed to the basement tv room, watched tv for a bit as we needed to check out at 11. Of course we played some mor...