I arrived into Banff in October 2018 and left September 2019. It is the longest time I have spent anywhere whilst travelling and I loved it.
I mean, there were times when I hated it and wanted to leave immediately but for the best part it was amazing. I met some incredible people and managed to save a heap of money for my backpacking to begin again.
So how to even put a year of my life into words.. I guess pictures and a slight chronological sense of story telling.
October
- Living in a hostel
- Seeing banff for the first time and falling in love with the mountains
- Snow
- Meeting my first lot of awesome banff people
- Travelled to vancouver to visit quincys dad and visit whistler
- First job- pizza making
- Halloween
November & December
- Christmas market
- Tattoos
- Eventually earning money!!
- Cinema
- Getting married!! (again)
- More snow
- christmas christmas christmaaas
January & February
- my 24th birthday
- 1st wedding anniversary
- trip to calgary
- first canadian hockey game
- -40 degrees
- and more snow!
- new job- server & quit old pizza job
March & April
- vegan food
- tattoos
- dog sitting
- melting lakes
- parties
- The Cat Empire- calgary
- new apartment
- snowboarding for the first time
- Spiritulized- Vancouver
- more vegan food
May & June
- one week in LA with Tilly
- muscle beach
- santa monica
- venice beach
- hollywood sign
- cold cold banff
- quick visit to Toronto for a family wedding
- cameron comes to visit meaning I visit lots of tourist spots:
- sulphur mountain hike
- lake minnewanka
- two jack lake
- paddle boating
- canoeing
- party party party
July & August & September
- a whole lot of work
- quincys 26th birthday
- lion king premier
- Alvvays Concert – Banff
- lake louise & big beehive hike
- canada day
- party party
- quincys mum comes to visit
- trip to drumheller
- final days at work and in banff
And THAT is my year in banff summarised into bullet points and photos because I could probably write a short story about my time in this town.
It was an awesome town to get to spend a year and I am really lucky to have met the people I did and get to work with some great people.
Thanks for having me banff and thank you for reading this blog post. My previous posts are 24 things I have learnt in 24 years and for more regular updates check out my youtube channel 🙂
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What an amazing experience!!
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