one year in Banff

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

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November & December

• Christmas market
• Tattoos
• Eventually earning money!!
• Cinema
• Getting married!! (again)
• More snow
• christmas christmas christmaaas

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 🙂