Thursday 8th June: Mystic Harbor Cruise Day It was another mild and sunny morning but the impact of the Canadian wild fires still lingered here in Newport with smoke haze filtering the sun, thereby giving an eerie golden glow, and masking the colour of what should have been a beautiful blue sky. The main dampener… More

Tuesday 6th June: Cliff Walk Day It was a much warmer start to the day, and without the awful wind, which was good news for us as we planned to do for the very popular 3 1/2 mile Cliff Walk along the Newport coastline. This route takes you past many of the mansions that have… More

Sunday 4th June: arrival day Our lodging in Newport for the next 4 days was at The Marshall Slocum Inn; a boutique hotel where we had the one bedroom apartment. I’d had trouble finding anything in the area within a reasonable budget but was quite pleased with my choice. It was large, light-filled, clean and… More

Friday 2nd June  There was another hiccup with our travel plans; with our day of travel from Vancouver to Boston via Toronto. Our flight from Vancouver to Toronto was delayed first by 2 hours, then by 3, and then by 4, meaning we would not be making our connecting flight from Toronto to Boston. Apparently,… More

Monday 29th May The next main stop on our journey after Lake Louise was Kelowna. I’d initially marked this place in as it’s the location of a designer influencer I follow on Instagram and her description of her home town sounded so appealing that I’d thought a short stop here might be nice. However, since… More

Saturday 27th May It was a glorious sunny morning for our drive to Lake Louise and we got away from Calgary by 8.30 am. It was 9.30 am by the time we arrived in Canmore so we stopped off at Communitea for breakfast. This was a great little cafe and worth a visit if you’re ever… More

Thursday 25th May It was a lovely sunny, albeit cool, morning for our journey to Calgary. We got away from Banff just after 9 am and made our first stop shortly after at Canmore to get a coffee for Mark. I’d been keen to check out Canmore as I’d heard it was a great alternative… More

Tuesday 23rd May It was an early start for us today with a morning tour, Discover Banff & Its Wildlife Tour, so no early walk as our pick up was 8.15 am. It was our coldest morning for our trip thus far, at just 4oC, but the wind chill made it feel colder and we… More

Monday 22nd May It was a good day to be leaving Jasper as the clouds and rain had arrived. We’d been very lucky with the weather thus far, a bit too lucky with the heat in some places, so we can’t complain at all but just hoping there wasn’t going to be too much rain… More

Saturday 20th May It was another glorious morning and there was much less smoke today, something we were both pleased by as we were heading up on the Jasper Skytram for a bit of walking and sight seeing. Mark didn’t head out on a ride this morning as his latest research showed lots of warnings… More