Banff Park Lodge

... having scrambled egg and beans on toast as my x factor meal ( i watch the live stream on a sunday), more food updates to come next time.




Our house is now full. my roomate arrived with two other guys. they all seem really cool, the two other guys are from wellington rugby college and played for their firsts, so got a lot to talk to them about and my roomate is 23 from liverpooooooooooooooooool. (thats me wriiting the accent ...

... water but it was all quite successful apparently.

We travelled through four National Parks today - Mount Revelstoke, Glacier, Yoho and Banff. The scenery was magnificent. The leaves are starting to turn so there are great patches of gold amidst the green. There are also some very big patches of red, which looks pretty but isn't so good. Here in Canada a little migrant from South America called a Pine Beetle is creating havoc. No-one ...

... a rap artist from California who gave me some of his cd's, an ex prison mate (who surprisingly was probably one of the nicest people I've met, with the best manners!), this random art sculpturerer (whatever they're called!!) who had an exhibition on there and so on!
After Vegas I went to San Diego. I pretty much went there for the Zoo, which in my opinion isn't any better, in fact my biased opinion is that Melbourne zoo is far more better, and more suited to the ...

Loved Revelstoke if we could we would live here. Anyway off to Lake Louise we thought we would probably just check out the hotel and move on to Banff.We loved Lake Louise it has a great hostel there great for any travelling family, we liked the idea that we were not just staying in a hotel all cramped up, but ...

... cliffs. To the left is crowfoot glacier, where a century ago, the crowfoot glacier had three toes of ice. Since then the glacier has melted back and the lower toe has been lost. These days the middle toe is disappearing too. Bow Summit is the highest point on the road where we stopped and after a short uphill walk from the parking area Peyto Lake came into view. It is supposedly the bluest lake which is glacially-fed and was a ...

... you'll see why Lake Louise is so photographed...it is such a beautiful site, but it is also the hiking capital of Canada...so you see lots of hikers all about. Lake Louise was named in 1884 for Princess Louise, the sixth child of Queen Victoria. We ate lunch in the Chateau Lake Louise, one of the old resort hotels built by the Canadian Pacific Railroad to lure people to ...

... piros pályáktól az eddig még nem látott zűrösségű 45 fokos, kizárólag méteres buckákból álló pályáig terjed - utóbbit sikerült kifogni második nap bemelegítés gyanánt. Mindebből logikusan következik ama szomorú tény, hogy az itteniek sajnos kegyetlenül tudnak snowboardozni, úgyhogy az én hozott tudásom így erősen közepesnek bizonyult. A bukkanókon nehezen összevakart 180-akra itt oda se néznek, Martin viszont ...

... Construction of the road began in 1931 when the Canadian government put unemployed men to work for 20 cents a day, during the Great Depression. The single-lane gravel Banff to Jasper road opened in 1940. During the 1950s/60s the tourist boom helped to widen and pave the road, and give it it's present name. We set out in -30 degree weather and had our first experience of "in car frosting". Joe handed us frost scrapers to scrape off the ...