Mountain Country Bed And Breakfast Banff
427 Marten Street Banff, Banff National Park, Canadian Rockies, Alberta, T1L 1B6, Canada
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Snow Days
Howdy folks,
With plenty of powder hanging around on Wednesday, it was the perfect opportunity to indulge in some wintery outdoor fun. The Cougar Street gang had lots of fun making snow angels, throwing snowballs and generally covering each other in snow. Then came the brilliant idea to make a snow pyramid and it was pretty impressive. I set out to make my own snow pile because the powder wasn't wet enough to roll into a snowman. Steffie and I made our own snow Slimer (from ...
Holiday Season
... next adventure, apparently that's what you do when you're travelling. We have bus tickets for Vancouver, where we'll be staying 3 days before jumping on the bus again to head down to Los Angeles.
But let's talk about Christmas. When you're travelling, you don't have your family, something that we're used to since we've been away from our place for more than 5 years, or in our case we didn't have our friends we're used ...
Insider's Guide to Banff
... or bars here yet. Check out bingo night at the Royal Canadian Legion (like an RSL) for cheap beer and some intense action.
4. Go sightseeing. Banff is all about tourists so if you get bored here then it is your own fault! The must do things are: Bow Falls, the Banff Springs Hotel, the Banff Gondola to Sulphur Mountain, the Upper Hot Springs and the Bow Valley Parkway. Even if you are feeling lazy you can still go 3 different museums, an ...
BEAR!
Today we are going back from Jasper to Banff. Waking up proved to be very dificult for me. We were due to leave at 9 - I got up at ten to!!! EEEEK mad panic and rush but I made it :) First stop today was a place called Tangled Falls which used to be called that becuse of the plants etc that used to grow up the fall - most of those are gone now so again it's a pretty rubbish name. Alan did his impression of a mountain goat and climbed higher ...
Beauty Everywhere
... stores in Canada cost $12 to $13, so I guess $20 wasn't out of line. The campground had only electric hookups and they charged $35 a night plus it cost $10 per person per day for the pass to be in the park. Diesel fuel in Canada was around $5.25 (US) per gallon! I'll quit complaining about the costs in Canada now. We had originally thought we would spend around a month in Canada, but decided 2 weeks was enough.
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