“You don’t want to go do a Lake Minnewanka cruise?” I asked my husband as we sat in the Bow Valley Grill at the Fairmont Banff Springs hotel in the mountain town of Banff, Alberta, having just finished a buffet breakfast the size of 3,000 alpine lakes. “It’s a boat tour. It’s scenic! We’ll have fun!” […]
Spa celebrations at the Fairmont Banff Springs 125th anniversary
Celebrate with Diamonds No, the 125th anniversary stone is not a diamond. Diamonds are for 60th anniversaries – think the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012. Interestingly enough, diamonds used to represent 75th anniversaries, but this year, in honour of the Fairmont Banff Springs 125th anniversary, the hotel’s Willow Stream Spa has introduced a decadent Diamond Radiance Facial […]
Banff Centre Literary Journalism comes to an end
It’s a final hike to Sunshine as the Banff Centre Literary Journalism program comes to an end for another year Banff Literary Program – a final hike Say it’s not so! I don’t want to leave the Banff Centre. How can this be the last day? Yesterday, most of our group in the Literary […]
Banff Literary Journalism Program – intense!
I am in a very uncomfortable position. At the Banff Narrative Journalism Program you spend the month of July working on one essay. That’s right, one. And the other participants workshop it and I am being workshopped today. Yikes! So I can’t really do anything except avoid people until 4 p.m. when the workshop starts. […]
Literary Journalism Program at the Banff Centre
I’ve been at here for the Literary Journalism Program at the Banff Centre for 6 days now and here’s what I’ve learned. I’m a crappy writer. I can’t write under pressure. (Oh, please. Don’t agree quite so quickly – I’m in turmoil.) Literary Journalism at the Banff Centre means time in Banff Why should you […]
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