Calgary and beyond

well this was our first view of Calgary from our hotel window, What a dirty, dusty drab place and it didn't get any better when we went out to get a drink either, piles of fag ends and general rubbish on the streets of downtown ,surely this isn't Calgary it looked so nice and clean in the books .



The only bar we could find was an Irish bar so we went in and had a beer,we sat at the bar and watched the bar tender waste so much Guinness trying to get a good pint it was so funny to watch i even told him if he were at home he would end up fired for wasting so much Guinness, anyway we got chatting and he told us that all the dust and sand came from the roads, its What they put on the roads to give cars some grip when the snow is about, all the rubbish and fag end come from the snow piles , when they melt it leaves all the crap behind just like it does at home so after the winter the street cleaning gangs come round and clean up, they even put it out on the radio so you can move your car .

so if you look at that picture again but this time imagine the grass green and the water fountains with nice clean water in and the sidewalks clean it don't look to bad, and that's just What we had to do.


Friday the 10th we did the tourist bit and walked around the town looking at the shops and things, finally getting up the tower which gave us a great view of Calgary and the surrounding city right out to the Rockies, but time was getting on and we needed to put some km on the Dodge and head south out of the city.

the first thing you notice when on the highway is the lack of traffic there just ain't any, easy driving everything just flows at 100/110kph . we were heading to Lethbridge where H & R Transport is, i wanted at least to have a look in thier yard even if the interview was off and maybe meet the brummie for a drink, and on the way down we past more than one fine example of there trucks.

when your driving south and look to your right and see the snow caped mountains of the Rockies its just something else and to the left rolling plains of green grass not really all the grass was brown we never saw a blade of green grass you just had to imagine it was green, some of the names we saw were great too High River, Fort Macleod, and Head smashed in buffalo jump beats Coventry and Leicester, we were heading for Lethbridge and a meet up with the brummie ,even though i did not have an interview with H & R, he said come and stop with us and we will have a BBQ and a beer or two oh and some wine for the girls and a bottle of scotch and a good time was had by all ,thanks and we owe you one now .

Saturday morning Louise and i took their dog out around the town and felt right at home in Canada and we had only been there 48 hours.
After another BBQ breakfast we said our goodbye's, jumped in the Dodge and headed back into Lethbridge for a look round before heading east, we had no idea where we would end up as no hotel was booked we were just going with the flow.