Calgary: Our Beginners Guide to “Getting Around 101”
If you're arriving in Calgary for the first time it may be helpful to know how to get around from a "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" perspective. I've already provided my insights on the geographical lay-of-the-land in a previous Blog entry. Using this critical piece of correspondence you may want to mentally overlay it with what I'm about to share with you below if you want to navigate your way around our City with relative ease. Here is a snapshot of my previous
Calgary: A Simplistic Overview of the Lay-of-the-Land
As a newcomer to the City of Calgary one quickly has to learn the lay-of-the-land if you want to have any confidence in navigating from point A to point B. Even though the skill of self-navigating has fallen by the wayside with the modern day ease of access to GPS technology, it's still worthwhile having a basic understanding of how your surroundings are laid out. I'm going to try to achieve that here. Any newbie to Calgary needs to understand how
Introducing Calgary: Be Part of the Energy
As a permanent resident of Canada and, more specifically, a home-owner in the oil and gas-driven City of Calgary I have come to love this place not only for its diversity of cultures but also because of her people, seasons, climate, landscape, geography and - not least of all - the rapid weather changes. Aspects of Calgary remind me so much of Johannesburg, South Africa: the shortness of breath you experience when climbing stairs because of its high elevation, the electrostatically