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...and back again.
It is the morning of November the 8th 2012. Jess and I awake to a familiar sight, it is snowing! And not just lightly snowing either, but huge fluffy snowflakes that white-out the sky. This can't be Europe….no, it’s Calgary! We’re home!! A bitter-sweet experience indeed.
162 nights ago Jess and I set off on an adventure of a lifetime! It started late at night, in Bucharest ...
Krakow to Budapest with RyanAir
... to drive from Edmonton to Saskatoon. Gee, it would likely be cheaper than driving from Calgary to Edmonton.
This is again with Ryanair and I checked it out on a number of sites including Skyscanner which is a very useful site.The nice part about this flight is it is direct. The kind of downside is we get into Budapest so late at night.
We can now poke around ...
Ottawa Bound
... so no surprise petrol was so cheap compared to anywhere else we'd been.
Just about made it on time to hand the car back (and 1109km or 689.1miles later) and find our check in counter for Westjet airlines. We had such a lovely attendent check us in and he was so friendly! We thought that he would be the highlight of the flight experience. How we wrong!
Got on our flight and ...
Edmonton, Medicine Hat, Calgary... Whirlwind tour!
... a 2 and a half year old and teething 9 month old would have it's share of troubles. Sample dialogue; Kara - "Are the kids sleeping?", Me - "Drew's sleeping, Ava has cheese whiz all over her face and is staring at me." I drove for the first half while Kara tended to the children and then we switched. All in all, it could have been a lot worse, and they really didn't cry for too much of the time. It was also really nice to pass them off to Grandma and Grandpa as soon as we got ...
No backing out now
... welcome at the end of this monster first day! For those of you feel that you have not had enough, there is the option of taking on the eastern side of the Col de Marie Blanc (1035m) - adds 700 very steep metres of climbing! We get our Raid carnet stamped twice today – we are well on our way!
Day 2: Lurbe St Christau to Aste (140km with 3530km ascent)This second ...
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