We appear to be getting over jet lag and we both had a good night’s sleep. We left the hotel and drove to Lake Louise and had a look round. We then headed off to Bow lake another beautiful stop where we witnessed a perfect rainbow arcing the water. We then moved onto Lake Peyto where again beautiful scenery comprising of water, mountains and glaciers. You might think seen one lake you’ve seen them all, I assure you that is not the case. We then continued our journey through the mountains and stopped for lunch en route. We continued along Highway 93 known as the Icefields Parkway. We drove around the Big Bend where the road construction crews from Jasper linked up with the road construction crews from Banff and so completed the highway. We then stopped at another lookout known as Saskatchewan viewpoint. We carried onto the Columbian Ice field Centre. We left there and carried onto the Athabassa Falls that were fantastic. After this short stop we drove to Jasper for our overn...
While we were asleep the ship docked in the Port of Vancouver. We awoke and went for breakfast then returned to our cabin collected our luggage and disembarked. We cleared customs and immigration without a hitch and regrouped with our fellow Newmarket Travellers but we had to wait a little while before our rep appeared. She showed us to our coach and we were transferred to our hotel. Unfortunately we could they access to our room until 16:00 some six hours away. I contacted my cousin Trent O’Donnell told him where we were and he drove down to see us. We had lunch and he told us all about himself and where he fits in family tree. After he left we took a walk through the city and found the RCMP shop where I was able to gets some bits. We walked back to the hotel and gained access to our room and our luggage arrived soon after. We unpacked the stuff needed for the remainder of our stay and then went down for a drink and were joined by another couple from our group. It was a lo...
We knew it was going to be a long day. We climbed out of bed at 05:00 and did the final bits until the taxi arrived at 06:00. We were taken to Thorne Hill and within minutes of being dropped off our Heathrow coach arrived. Our journey was without incident and we were soon within the mighty world of Heathrow. We found the Air Canada desk and dropped off our luggage. We then went a found the assistance desk as we knew the distances would be too much for Val. We were taken through security and we found a place for breakfast. We then waited for our flight to be called which it eventually was. We were taken by buggy to our departure gate. We boarded the plane and at 12:15 BST we took off. It was a comfortable flight and we arrived 15:15 local time (22:15 BST) We soon cleared immigration and customs and met up with our tour manager. We boarded the bus for our transfer to Banff. On the way we drove past the ski jump where Eddie the Eagle made his name. There was an issue on the way which mad...
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