Canada - The Last Frontier - Alberta, Fort McMurray - The Campbells are coming!
The cry "The Campbells are coming" bred fear into the hearts and souls of peace loving peoples. Not least because of the howling bagpipes normally wailing in the background, and sometimes due to the awful lyrics to the song: The Great Argyll he goes before, He makes the cannons and guns to roar, With sound o'trumpet, pipe and drum, The Campbells are coming, Ho-Ro, Ho-Ro! And so it wasn't. The Campbells were staid put up in Fort McMurray in the far reaches of the north of Alberta, after a large slice of lifetime mining for oil in the famous oil sands area, clan Campbell Paul welcomed Felipe and Rosa to his province. The flight from Vancouver via Calgary took about 4 hours including layover, and gave opportunity to see the flat lands from above. North of Calgary the forests were striking, whilst smoke from fires blurred the view. Whilst we were in the province, the 'wild fire' (our bush fire) bit hard into the western side of Alberta and destroyed hotels and ho
