Had a much better sleep and we both feel more human, the weather was also great, sunny and pure blue sky. We decided to hire bicycles to see more of the city.
We decided to follow the River Bow cycle path around the city of Calgary – the girl in the shop said it would be about 60km. We set off (10:30) and it was really pleasant - nice scenery and really warm. The path went through various areas some very green others through housing areas. After about 2 hours we stopped to check where we were on the map – a local gave us some help and said that the path we planned to do was blocked due to severe flooding a couple of years ago so gave us another path to follow. The path weaved through various housing estates until it eventually reached a park with a massive reservoir. By this time we are feeling pretty tired and our botties are starting to get a little painful. The cycle path back to our hotel from the reservoir was really nice and followed the river – there were some really fab looking houses – the trip back seemed really long as we were starting to get really tired by this point – we eventually got back to the cycle shop at 15:30.
We went to a recommended restaurant for our evening meal called “The Keg”. John had fancied some ribs, and this place was supposed to specialize. The restaurant itself was pleasant enough, if a little dark. Everything was going well until John tucked into his second rack of ribs, which were stone cold. He sent them back. The manager came over and apologized and said he would not charge for John’s meal. 20 minutes later, the ribs had still not arrived. The manager came over and apologized, saying they had now burnt the ribs. The good news is that our entire meal, wine included, was now to be on the house!! The ribs eventually arrived back hot-ish!!
The evening finished with a wee glass of wine over a video, back at the hotel, which we did not see the end of, due to continuing jet lag.
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