Fairmont Calgary

... Canadian Rockies and east/west coasts of USA. I began in Toronto before jetting off to Banff to sell jewellery in the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel for a few weeks. After meeting some random Vancouver contacts I headed down to Jerico Beach for a couple of ...

... , Banff and then Calgary. In Calgary we had dinner with our DFK friends, Ray and Bernice Mack.  They took us to the Calgary Tower and we saw a wonderful view of the city. Tomorow we are travelling by plane to Ketchikan in Alaska to ctch our boat ride ...

... Bow Falls, part of the Bow river where Marilyn Monroe filmed a movie and famously sprained her ankle and the bell boys at the Fairmont hotel would fight over who got to push her around for the day in a wheelchair. We had some free time for lunch back ...

We have arrived safely in Calgary, exhausted and minus one bag which decided not to leave Edinburgh, but it's due in tomorrow.......! So Graham will just have to smell tomorrow in his travel clothes! Now to sleep ...

... .  They call it a village, but there are only 900 people and all are employed by the park or support industries, most by the Fairmont.  From my count, there is a strip mall, two gas stations, a hostel, a couple inns and the Fairmont down by the ...

... they had torn up the main street so traffic was blocked up on all the side streets. Our first stop in Banff was at the Fairmont - Banff Springs which is a giant old luxury hotel. This is where my parents stayed when they travelled through Banff and I now ...

... By Tuesday, cabin fever had set in, so our awesome foursome (Kate, Tom, Katie, Leea) took a 40 minute bus trip to the Fairmont Chateau on Lake Louise. Even under a blanket of snow, it is a stunning place. The previous week there had been an ice sculpting ...

... Regina before reaching Calgary where we are spending a couple of nights with Sherri & Robert.  Then it is a couple of nights at Fairmont Hot Springs before we head home. So we should reach Penticton about the 26 or 27,  It has been a great 3 ...

... !  We then went to Lake Louise, walked along the boardwalk, took photos of the glacier, and walked through the Lake Louise Fairmont Hotel.     5pm - We were back on the road, and there was more epic mountain scenery ...

... and restaurants.  Up the street and around the corner is the elegant Banff Springs Hotel (now called the Fairmont Banff Springs), modeled after a Scottish baronial castle, this mountain resort is built of locally quarried Rundle limestone from ...

... they melt! Drove through Jasper national park, detouring to Lake Louise to check out where I'll be working and living. The Fairmont Chateau. The lake was still frozen but still beautiful and the hotel looks amazing. From there we went further south ...

Today's blog will be in two parts, because we had a special sunrise surprise this morning while taking a walk along the lakeside at Lake Louise. We walked and enjoyed the peace, the cool air and the reflections on the lake from the glacier and mountains ...

... That's fabulous, or could the web site number be wrong? I will have more to say about that in Part 2. http://www.fairmont.com/empress/ ....bottom corner click on History to find the 800 number Mathematics aside, I still find that "The Empress" is ...

... filled with Aussies, boring! went ot bed eating fruit bread and woke up with a stomach ache, da! 12th Nov walked to Fairmont springs hotel and around the snow covered golf feilds, beautiful! walked along the river bank and ate lunch under a big ...

... is that everything is starting to close. The Jasper and Banff golf clubs had both closed last week. Fortunately the pro shop at Fairmont Banff had a shop set up for closing down sale and Graham was able to obtain some memorabilia that will ...