Emma and Michael have got wedding chores to attend to, not to mention sleepy heads and hangovers after last night’s other wedding, so the rest of us head down to Waterton Lakes National Park, an hour and a bit south-west of Lethbridge on the United States border. Issy and I have been there a couple of times before and were suitably impressed, so we’re keen to show Scott and Troy some real Canadian mountains. We’re also keen to show them the spectacular Blakiston Falls which readers of posts from earlier trips might remember are named after one of our direct descendants, the English explorer Thomas Blakiston. My mother was a Blakiston, and Blakiston’s my middle name (yes, really). First stop is the iconic 1927 Prince of Wales Hotel overlooking Upper Waterton Lake. We remember previously that
... read more
