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Tag Archives: Canada
Canadian Rockies: warm weather and reflections
The weather has been warmer than usual with day after day of blue skies and sunshine. Rather than taking photos I’ve been concentrating on trying to improve my incompetent skiing, smooth wide turns on mild slopes but still aggressively sharp … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Landscape, Reflections, Winter
Tagged banff canada, Canada, Canadian Pacific Railway, freight trains, ice, snow, weather patterns, winter
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Canadian Rockies: global weather patterns, local effects: wrapped in thermals not cotton wool
In January the Canadian Rockies normally experience very cold conditions. When I first came to Banff in the winter of 2010/11 the warmest temperature in the month from mid-December to mid-January was minus 15oC and most mornings the short walk … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Landscape, Mountains, Winter
Tagged banff canada, Canada, cloud, cloud band, Florida, freezing temperatures, global atmospheric circulation, hoarfrost, jet stream, Lake Louise, North American Cold Wave, polar vortex, Reynaud's Syndrome, sun dog, Sunshine, weather forecasts
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Canadian Rockies: a walk along the Bow River at Banff
Thursday was another day off skiing. I don’t have the stamina or the lift pass to ski every day. I took my skis in for a service – sharpen the edges and wax – and set out to follow a … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Hiking, Landscape, Mountains, Winter
Tagged Banff, banff canada, Banff Hot Springs, Banff National Park, Bow Falls, Bow River, Canada, Cascade Mountain, Cave and Basin, Mount Edith, Mount Rundle
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Canadian Rockies: the Wow! factor
“Wow!” The Canadian guy in the seat next to me on the packed 15.30 bus coming back to Banff from Sunshine let out an involuntary exclamation of appreciation as we rounded a bend in the Trans Canada Highway and yet … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, History, Landscape, Mountains, Winter
Tagged Canada, Lookout Mountain, Mount Assiniboine, Sunshine, Sunshine Meadows, Sunshine Village, Tee Pee Town, Wow! factor
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Canadian Rockies: to the Top of the World
Whichever island I visit in Greece I always aim to climb the highest mountain. I have written about going to the ‘top of the world’ on Nisyros, Symi, Tilos, Hydra, Karpathos ……… . Generally they are not very high in … Continue reading
Sunshine Coast in the Canadian Rockies
The sleep I was looking forward to when I finally arrived in Banff wasn’t refreshing. I had temporarily forgotten that sleeping at altitude (albeit only 1400 metres) messes with my sleeping pattern. The lapse of memory was only short lived. … Continue reading
Time plays with the mind: the Canadian Rockies
It’s 23.30 Rocky Mountain Time, 06.30 GMT and 08.30 in Greece. After 30 hours without sleep I’m now in Banff and ready to go to bed, the first time before midnight for years. But then it’s another midnight not the … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Mountains, Reflections, Winter
Tagged banff canada, Canada, lack of sleep, Rocky Mountain Time, snow, time, time perception
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A grey start to the year
I don’t believe in omens. The fact that the new year continues grey, wet and windy may be a sign, but if it is, it’s a sign of global climate change and of shifting ocean currents and the jet stream … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Grey Britain, Hiking, Landscape, Mountains, Pontypool, Wales, Winter
Tagged banff canada, Canada, clag, climate change, cloud, flood warnings, global climate change, greyness, Mynydd Garn Wen, rain, snow, Wales
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Grey Britain, Canada, Greece: a philosophy of travel
It is widely believed that in the UK when the weather is dominated by high pressure the sky is blue and the sun shines, luxuriatingly hot in the summer, icy cold and exhilarating in winter. It can be but is … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Greece, Grey Britain, Grumpy Old Men, Mountains, Pontypool, Wales
Tagged ash tree, banff canada, bus routes, buses, button holes, Canada, grandchildren, Greece, Greek Islands, Mani, south wales coalfield, travel writing
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Vancouver: surviving a grey, wet Family Day
In his book ‘Notes from a Small Island’ Bill Bryson records that when he arrived one Sunday in Blaenau Ffestiniog in North Wales that it was raining and that it was closed (I paraphrase from memory because someone has borrowed … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Canada
Tagged Canada, Canada Centre, Canada War of 1812, cormorants, Family Day, Heron, Seaplanes, Stanley Park, Vancouver
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