Gastown Vancouver

I didn't go to bed till pretty late last night as I was trying to figure out the best way to get all our stuff in our bags. Nightmare hope I get better at it. I was also doing a bit of research into what to see and do in Vancouver once we got there. We got up early as Sarah kindly offered to give us a lift to the station saving us a walk. Some how …

Had a pretty early start today as there was lots we wanted to see and do. Headed through Gastown grabbing a muffin and coffee before heading up to waterfront. We also found a shop all about the Canadian Mounties and as some of you know Andrew loves them after watching 'Due South' when he was younger. He is now the proud owner of a Mountie t-shirt …

Well I once again went into the city, to walk around and revisit some places that i enjoyed looking at
GASTOWN being one of them. Plenty of tourists shops in which to look at and spend your money
It's an old historic part of Vancouver with so much history, I have enjoyed my time in Canada …

Day 8 – Walking Tours of Downtown Vancouver

This morning we got up, had breakfast then headed out into the city area to meet up with our tour guides for a walking tour of Gastown & Downtown Vancouver. This was a free 90 minute walking tour with the "Tour Guys' and we were taken to areas of the city where significant stories of …

It was nice to wake up this morning and hear the kids playing all together. However, what was not so nice was the fact that they started playing around 5:45am!!!! Nevertheless, it started us all up and out of bed and began what turned out to be a wonderful day touring around and through Vancouver. We had an excellent tour guide in Aunt Fiona who …

This was a very late start... mum was still sleeping at 9.30am when Dad called on Skype and then I took an age to pull myself together. Think we are worn out. (He he he).

It's a city walking tour day with Kim. Good news is it's started off cloudy, so mum's happy. We start with a wander across town to B.C. Place Stadium where we spot men …

Entry containing 4 photos titled: Steamworks Brewing Company, Bellini anyone?, Gastown

Day 1:
Two long haul fights within a couple of days of each other was a bad idea. Very tired. Transat were an interesting experience, CRT TVs - those are some outdated planes! They also had a pretty limited food supply because their catering company are on strike, never good when 15
minutes into the flight you're told there might not be …

Starting at Gastown, the City’s
oldest neighborhood (designated as a National Historic Site in 2009), we
visited the famous steam clock. From there, we walked down the main street
(Water Street), towards - the for Once fans very well-known – flat iron
building, where they filmed the Emma-chasing-Neal-scene in the ‘ …

Today is the last day for those competitors taking part in only the NY to Vancouver leg. A short day so that there is time to reach Vancouver for a late lunch and explore the downtown area before dinner.



This was to be a relatively straight forward cruise through the alpine scenery of British Colombia to Vancouver Island where we …

... like booking a hotel for our stay at Pismo (California). Later we took a walk along the sea front to the touristic 'Gastown' district. We saw the Olympic cauldron and the new convention center. I like the way the downtown area is architected. Especially ...

... a photo shoot of us. We strolled around Yaletown and the to take photos. In the afternoon we drove around Vancouver to look at the beaches, the University and Gastown. We enjoyed out dinner at a very odd Korean BBQ place in Kitsilano. The food was good, ...

... gets. It also turned out that when we ran the numbers to any and all possible break destinations, the return flights to Vancouver, Canada were very reasonable. In addition to birthday cake, this diversion would also allow us to test drive Vancouver as a ...

Day 147 May 30th continued - A short trip from Bellingham to Vancouver. I got grilled by Canadian immigration. Asking what job my brother does, what his wife does, where they met, how much cash I have, my assets, the size of my shoe! Crazy! But, he still ...

... do a hop-on hop-off bus tour of the city. This is the view from the Hyatt hotel. Our first stop was Vancouver Aquarium. This place was very good as aquariums go but the main attraction was the Beluga Whales. This is a picture from ...

... of her city time in historic areas without any skyscrapers. So, after my time in the sky I made a path for Gastown, the historic district of Vancouver where I felt much more at home. While only a few blocks near Water Street, it was bricked and historic ...

... we had met on the road told us to go to Stanley Park so we walked through town and experienced a very different Vancouver to the night before. Aesthetically, it's a nice city, there are people on bikes and they dress really ...

... Island. The Aquabus is a must-do... especially late in the evening as you can get a whole different perspective of Vancouver. Beautiful. We ended up wandering around Granville Island around 8pm but the market and most of the stores were already ...

... it for the free breakfast. Gastown is not I found out, a hang out for baked bean enthusiasts but the oldest part of Vancouver, named after a British sailor who opened the first bar here, bet he was fun room mate. I spent some time walking around ...

... dwindled to single layer my heart sank. No big blue bag. I asked the bus driver if there had been another bus going to Vancouver. There was not, and I started to get alarmed. I hadn't even been organized enough to pack a clean pair of underwear in my ...