Canada

From Arctic to Atlantic to Pacific and every place in between, Canada, the world’s second largest country, celebrated its 150th birthday in 2017. Lonely Planet thought that was a good reason to name Canada the number one place to travel to next that year. The tipping point for that decision was the fact that access to all of our national parks were absolutely free for the whole sesquicentennial year. We have a lot of national parks – 44 of them to be precise. Our 150th birthday may be over but our great country and province are still here. Alberta is blessed with some of the country’s most magnificent national parks. (We think they might actually be the best in the world.) Waterton stands guard at our Southern border. Banff and Jasper cover vast territory in the West and Wood Buffalo looms in the…

Here’s a link to the article called “Surprising Calgary” (pages 46 – 47). It was part of an Air Transat feature on Alberta as “The Canadian Eden”. How cool is that? Kudos to the writers Helene Laurendeau, Mamzelle Poppy and Sarah-Emilie Nault who came with their photography crew to enjoy four Alberta cities in four…

  Here’s a fun map of the World’s Great Food Tours and guess what? Calgary Food Tours was the only Canadian food tour company to make the list. That’s cool. Thanks to our friends at Taste of Catalina Food Tours for the vote of confidence. It’s nice to belong to a great group of Food…