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Well, we made it to Lake Louise, up in the Rocky Mountains in Alberta (just a few km from the BC border).
It's weird that although this place is one province away I've never been anywhere near here. The bus journey took all day yesterday and I admit to being asleep for most of it while Andy played on his camera (which he has developed a love for).
When we got to Lake Louise at 8pm, noone knew where the hostel was! Here was Andy with 27kg of luggage, hauling it from place to place trying to find out. Both of us worried that we might not actually find it, and then disaster struck. Andy's camera fell out of its little bag onto the ground, and the shutter button stopped working and things generally sounded very not good when the camera was in use.
After 200-300m walking and still no signs anywhere, we went to the Lake Louise Inn, where the staff knew exactly where it was. On getting there, there wqas no signs to the entrance. You are probably starting to see a pattern here.
We both ended up with upper bunks as two Belgian guys (another pattern - we had an inconsiderate noisy Belgian guy for two days in Vancouver)were in the lower ones. They were friendly enough but I thought they were a bit rude as they kept making comments to each other in Dutch. In the morning though their tour guide brought us all food (including a lovely strawberry tart for Andy and an apple slice for me) and set off the smoke alarms with sparklers they'd brought for their party. I only realised later that food and drink are not allowed in the room.
They've gone now, so Andy, who hates upper bunks, took the one under me. The bed's wide enough to be a double, and as we're the only ones in the room we're going to use it as one :P
The camera shop knows nothing about digitals, the internet terminals here are slower than my typing speed and broken at the hostel, most info the hostel has given us so far is out of date or wrong, and any food (even normal shopping items) are very expensive. Andy is showing me how to eat cheaply, we've been living on apricots, tap water and lumps of bread from the bakery. (Andy's not a big fan of low-carb diets, he thinks they are dangerous and I'm not going to disagree because I like my carb foods) Apart from the water, we've imposed strict rations in order to keep costs down. Even the Diet Coke's being rationed.
So yeah, welcome to the wonderful village of Lake Louise and the best hostel in Canada. At least it is clean and secure.
I'm going to stop whinging now as it's getting very expensive.
It's weird that although this place is one province away I've never been anywhere near here. The bus journey took all day yesterday and I admit to being asleep for most of it while Andy played on his camera (which he has developed a love for).
When we got to Lake Louise at 8pm, noone knew where the hostel was! Here was Andy with 27kg of luggage, hauling it from place to place trying to find out. Both of us worried that we might not actually find it, and then disaster struck. Andy's camera fell out of its little bag onto the ground, and the shutter button stopped working and things generally sounded very not good when the camera was in use.
After 200-300m walking and still no signs anywhere, we went to the Lake Louise Inn, where the staff knew exactly where it was. On getting there, there wqas no signs to the entrance. You are probably starting to see a pattern here.
We both ended up with upper bunks as two Belgian guys (another pattern - we had an inconsiderate noisy Belgian guy for two days in Vancouver)were in the lower ones. They were friendly enough but I thought they were a bit rude as they kept making comments to each other in Dutch. In the morning though their tour guide brought us all food (including a lovely strawberry tart for Andy and an apple slice for me) and set off the smoke alarms with sparklers they'd brought for their party. I only realised later that food and drink are not allowed in the room.
They've gone now, so Andy, who hates upper bunks, took the one under me. The bed's wide enough to be a double, and as we're the only ones in the room we're going to use it as one :P
The camera shop knows nothing about digitals, the internet terminals here are slower than my typing speed and broken at the hostel, most info the hostel has given us so far is out of date or wrong, and any food (even normal shopping items) are very expensive. Andy is showing me how to eat cheaply, we've been living on apricots, tap water and lumps of bread from the bakery. (Andy's not a big fan of low-carb diets, he thinks they are dangerous and I'm not going to disagree because I like my carb foods) Apart from the water, we've imposed strict rations in order to keep costs down. Even the Diet Coke's being rationed.
So yeah, welcome to the wonderful village of Lake Louise and the best hostel in Canada. At least it is clean and secure.
I'm going to stop whinging now as it's getting very expensive.