Today, we are spending a day in Jasper. When you wake up to beautiful sunshine, the last thing you expect to be doing a few hours later is having a snowball fight. Yesterday we made it to the very north of the Icefields Parkway, to a town called Jasper. With a population of under 5,000, … Read more Canada 2017 – Day 5 – Spending a day in Jasper

The Icefields Parkway is on the agenda today. But, before we set off, you know that feeling when you are on holiday and you force your eyes open when you wake. You feel the need to reach for something to tell you what the time is, even though you don’t give two shakes of a … Read more Canada 2017 – Day 4 – Driving the Icefields Parkway

To we are heading from Banff to Lake Louise. And we’re going on a bear hunt!! Mr Jetlag was still hanging around like a bad smell. I was awake at 3am. Suzanne and Max an hour later. We made no effort to get up and out quickly, so it was gone 8am before we started … Read more Canada 2017 – Day 3 – Banff to Lake Louise

Sunrise, Jet lag and the Banff Gondola. This is pretty much what our day has consisted of. I woke at 2am, Max and Suzanne weren’t far behind at 3am. We (I, to be more accurate) wanted to go to Vermilion Lakes to catch the sunrise. At 6.30 we made our way there, arriving after a … Read more Canada 2017 – Day 2 – A visit to the Banff Gondola

The hustle and bustle of the airport hotel restaurant is hopefully the total opposite of what awaits us when we touch down and eventually get to the Rockies to start our Canada Road Trip. Peaceful lakes, relaxing drives, stunning views and a plethora of wildlife. Before that though, we had the small matter of a … Read more Canada 2017 – Day 1 – Start of our Canada Road Trip