Being an innately cautious person I’ve never been skiing or snowboarding, but it was fun to watch other people do this at Sunshine Village, and to also admire the surroundings. The mountains in Canada are on a scale that you just don’t get here. But then, the same could be said for the whole country.

This is a tiny square from the top of one mountain, taken from the ‘base camp’ at Sunshine Village just outside of Banff. There are people skiing on there.