Jono's Travel Blog

2^nd break between contracts. (Edmonton)

A few days ago Alex and Chris left to go on their holidays, Chris went to Alaska for a hike whilst Alex went to Croatia to meet friends and travel around Eastern Europe.

It’s a shame they left because we including Cole always have a great time together.

Instead of Chris and Alex in Coles car for the trip they were replaced by 2 new French girls that joined our crew two shifts ago, Camille and Anne-Marie.

The break was for 5 days and the four of us decided to go to Edmonton for our fix of normal city life.

Thankfully I had packed up my big tent the night before leaving as the whole of the next morning it was pissing down, I slept in my tiny tent which really does not have any protection against the forces of nature although it does have its benefits of being easily packed away.

We left camp at around midday for the 3 hour journey to Edmonton.

We checked into a hotel on Whyte Ave, the apparent party centre of Edmonton sharing a 2 bed room for $22 each. It was a shabby hotel reminding me of the crap I use to stay in when I was traveling around India at an extortion rate in comparison. It was in a good location so we stayed.

As it was a Saturday the streets were filled with buskers and street performers which really got us into a party mood, we drank in our room for most of the arvo before Babs and even arrived then hit up the night life of Edmonton.

There was a decent crew of us including Tom and Paul and the night turned to be quite a lot of fun with some of us getting kicked out of half the places we entered due to some substances that were passed around the crew.

We all ended up at a house party somewhere where we were up till the early hours of the morning.

All in all, a pretty good night.