Category: Travellers Tales

We love Banff in any weather, because it’s not overdeveloped and is very reminiscent of Queenstown, New Zealand, on a smaller scale. The natural setting is marvelous and so well-managed that we finally saw...

Lake Louise turned out to be one of those places: amazing natural beauty with a block of flats at one end. The setting is breathtaking, but anyone who finds the Fairmont beautiful or inviting...

Last night’s nature was a qualified success: we weren’t attacked by bears and missed out on the elk, but we saw both the white-tailed and mule deer. We also enjoyed the company of a...

The Sawridge Inn has a very pleasant bar, and that is where we are sitting, rather shattered after completely over-doing it on our walk to Pyramid Lake. Jasper is a tiny sliver of buildings...

We are traveling through the Canadian Rockies on our way to Jasper, having spent our first night on a train – not quite together, as the beds were a little narrow. Even for the...

Today was our last day in Vancouver before we took the train across the Rockies to Jasper. There was much more we could have done around the town and further afield in BC, including...

Vancouver, Monday This was one of those days that you think might have been a bit chancy and expensive and which turns out to be the most amazing experience. We didn’t just see orcas,...

This has been the most marvelous day, walking through downtown Vancouver, spending hours in the magnificent Aquarium, seeing the glories of Stanley Park and finishing with a great meal at a Vancouver tradition (best...

We crashed last night, probably due to the term’s tiredness rather than the trip. We actually found our second wind when we arrived in Vancouver, but it didn’t last very long and we slept...