Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Winnipeg seems to be roughly our halfway point. Huge city with a ringroad a bit like the M25. However we took a detour into the city and paid a visit to the Royal Canadian Mint. Unable to obtain any samples, just as well, they only strike the coins here with all notes printed in Vancouver. After the tour we met a very big man in what appeared to be police uniform but he was the mint security guard and was armed🔫. He took us to a platform on which sat a bar of pure 24 carat gold. I was invited to pick up the bar (which was chained to the platform 💰) Surprisingly heavy for a strong old boy that I am! Worth about $500,000, never done that before. Headed west on the Trans Canada Highway we stopped at Brandon for the weekend to sample a wartime airforce museum where the RAF sent budding pilots to train in safety before sending them to their imminent premature deaths in Europe.       The weather is once again with us, 28c today and more for a while. Tomorrow finds us in need of a spot of shopping and maybe a drive in movie............