![\"Westways](\"\/blog\/export_genericmt.php_files\/westways.jpg\" "\\"Westways")
\nCalgary. An unexpected stopover. Hadn\u2019t noticed in my itinerary that I\u2019d be stopping overnight in Calgary on the way to San Francisco. Didn\u2019t realise til the Air Canada desk at Heathrow spelt it out for me. Heathrow was a nightmare. I followed the signs for \u2018Flight Connections\u2019, after disembarking from my comfy BMI flight down from Manchester, only to find, when I finally asked someone where I was, that \u2018they should have taken those signs down\u2019, and that I was now a long way from where I ought to be, and landside. The woman at the Air Canada desk was very understanding and helpful. I went through security again, and sat at the gate tapping away at my iPhone, found a gay B&B in Calgary, and booked a room, before boarding my transatlantic flight. (Well I wasn\u2019t going to stay in some faceless Holiday Inn, after all!) We landed 20mins early, but the luggage took 90mins to get to the conveyor belt, so it was 9pm before I was being shown my very comfy room in the very welcoming and friendly Westways B&B. A very retro, 1910 building with everything Victorian they could lay their hands on, Westways was old (in Canadian terms) and lovely. The sky-scrapers of central Calgary rose around it, overshadowing it, in quite an eerie way. Canada\u2019s 3rd city is split into four districts with a grid of streets and avenues, and has a No. 216, 25th Avenue, in the NW, the NE, the SE, and \u2013 where Westways is \u2013 the SW. Probably the most interesting thing about Calgary, that I could gleen, in my very brief, unexpected stopover. Montreal was SO much more interesting! I hear tell that Vancouver is too. I should visit.<\/p>\n