Goodbye to the motorhome – Calgary Stampede

🤠🐎 We dropped off the motorhome this morning, and then it was straight out to explore Calgary. Calgary is a big city with around 1.5 million inhabitants, but these days the city is buzzing with even more life, since the world-famous cowboy festival Calgary Stampede is in full swing. 🤠🇨🇦 The festival is often called “The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth” and has been held since 1912. Every year it attracts over a million visitors. 🐎 It’s not just on the festival grounds that things are happening. On the pedestrian street Stephen Avenue there’s also a fantastic atmosphere with live music, bands, dancing and lots of people in cowboy hats. 🎶🎸🤠 We spent most of the day at the festival grounds, and there was really a lot to do. It cost around 480 DKK for all four of us to get in, and the area is huge. There are rides 🎢, cowboy and Native American shows 🤠🪶, farm animals 🐄🐴, exhibitions, music and lots of activities for both kids and adults. Yes… most people walk around in cowboy hats. 😄 There’s really something for all ages, and you can easily spend a whole day here. The big rodeo show costs extra – in fact so much extra that we chose not to pay the roughly 3,000 DKK for the family that the tickets currently cost at minimum. 💸 We’ll keep an eye out again tomorrow, since you can sometimes get lucky and find cheaper last-minute tickets. 🤞