It's Canada's most beautiful journey: drive from Vancouver through the Rocky Mountains (the most spectacular mountain/driving experience) to Calgary, and stop off at the Icefields, Sulphur Mountain and Peyto Lake to soak in all the glories of the Canuck wilderness. There will most likely be bear and definitely deer and elk spottings too, which the kids will like.
Easter aside, another great time to be in Calgary is July, when the Stampede features six massive rodeo events and chuckwagon races. How can you refuse real cowboys in chaps, deep-fried Twinkies with Coke and generally calorific Western fun? Calgary is reknowned for not only its oil industry but the best beef in Canada, so steak all round.
Go to America. Then bear north.
It's a techno warehouse club on the Schillingbrucke in Friedrichshain. Basically, if you want a proper German hardcore clubbing experience then you have to go here. The building is huge and stripped down, the people are a mixture of local arty types and old-time East-siders, and the whole place doesn't get going till 2am. We left at 9 in the blinding morning sunshine, as a troop of skinheads were just arriving. Class!
An der Schillingbrucke
Stralauer Platz 33-4
10243 BERLIN
clubmaria.de
030/ 21 23 81 90
Ostbahnhof
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