Gateway Cities to Banff National Park – Vancouver Banff National Park, Alberta If you drive exactly 10km over the speed limit and don’t stop at all for a break, you can drive straight from Vancouver to Banff National Park in 9 hours. The downside of this is probably death from exhaustion. Calgary is the closest [...]

Jogging Banff National Park Banff National Park, Alberta Ah finally the snow and ice has cleared and it is possible to go for a jog without slipping and dying. It was only a month ago that I was jogging on the frozen Bow River. Really you are spoiled for choice when it comes to routes [...]

Picnics and BBQ’s in Banff Banff National Park, Alberta Banff National Park has the most sudden weather change I have ever seen. Last September, it changed from summer to winter overnight and it seems the opposite has happened now. This time last week, snow covered Banff Avenue and there was the perennial minus sign was [...]

Eating and Drinking in Banff – Eddie’s Burger Bar Banff National Park, Alberta In all the time I have lived in Banff, I must have walked by Eddie’s a thousand times without going in. I was under many wrong impressions. I thought it was cramped and very expensive. I was wrong on both counts. Though [...]

Best Beer Deck in Banff Banff National Park, Alberta I have made certain mathematical equations to decide which bar in Banff is best for enjoying a beer in the sun. You have to take the most likely time you will be drinking multiplied by the position of the sun at said time and you are [...]

Secrets of Banff – The Swing Banff National Park, Alberta It is with much reluctance that I share this Banff secret with you faithful reader(s). Within a very short drive from Banff town, you take the first turn off before the Sunshine Village exit and head towards Johnston Canyon. After a few gorgeous twists and [...]

Miki Japanese Restaurant – Dining in Banff Banff National Park, Alberta I am only recently a fish man. By this, I don’t mean I turned into a fish overnight. I have only been eating fish for less than a year which means sushi was off limits more or less. Banff, however is packed full of [...]

Eating in Banff – Masala Indian Restaurant Banff National Park, Alberta Anybody who has read my reviews on the food of Banff before may have realised that I am generally visiting the kind of place that is not going to cut my bank account in half. However, as it was a friend’s birthday and a [...]

Tackle Some Fishing in Banff, Canadian Rockies Banff National Park, Alberta I challenge you to find better environs than the Canadian Rockies during summer for some of the greatest fishing around. One of America’s best 500 presidents George Bush Senior used to sneak away to the peace of the mountains in Canada before the days [...]

Curling in Canmore – Canadian Rockies Activities Canmore, Alberta This would have seemed a strange blog to write if it wasn’t for the fact that the popularity of curling has gone through the roof since the Winter Olympics in Vancouver and also it is a hell of a lot of fun. It is a great [...]