Day 32: The temptation of Banff Apologies for the delay in updating this blog but for the past week under the tutorage of Tim I have taken loafing to a new level. If, God forbid, I ever lost my job and was forced to spend my days as a bum I know that I am fully equipped to live this life. Anyway, I spent a night in Vancouver last Saturday and splashed out on a room for one - a luxury I hadn't experienced in 3 weeks. Sleeping in a room with one other snoring ma...

Day 20: What to do in Whistler?On Sunday I had the most bizarre thing happen!!I had a random call on my mobile and it was from the proprietor of one of the accommodation firms I've mentioned in this very blog!! Believe it or not he had stumbled across the blog on the web.He politely explained to me that he was also a policeman - whileI sat in stunned silence for several minutes - and that he had not known the French guy with weed billowing out of his room (in d...

Day 18: Halloween in Whistler.Halloween in Canada is like New Year's Eve at home. It's massive. The eager Canadians had started carving their pumpkins weeks before (I know this because, several, putrid, rotting, specimens sat on our dinner tables in the hostel while we tried to eat, stinking to high heaven). It was really exciting to all us foreigners and everyone talked about costumes opposed to accommodation briefly.We all went down to a second hand place ...

Day 16: Judgement day.Yesterday I met Fili to view a house we had arranged to see from before and tell her that I had been offered somewhere else. I had told her a few days before I was planning to go to Banff and she was quite relaxed and calm (annoyingly so, in fact) so I was not expecting her to react badly.When I told her she said she was pleased for me, gutted and I could tell she felt a little upset but she knew I couldn't really turn down the offer cos I'...

Day 15: Desperate measures call for desperate actions. I love sayings.My mum used to tell my sister and I after many an unfortunate incident one of the many sayings she was actually taught in school; if wishes were horses all beggars would ride, beggars can't be choosers, absence makes the heart grow fonder, actions speak louder than words and so on. I think the reason I like sayings is because they're reassuring - they're a reminder that some other poor b*****...