Graeme's House Vancouver
2735 Waterloo St. Vancouver, British Columbia, V6R 3J1, Canada
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Rainy Vancouver
Mary's Impressions:
We arrived in Vancouver to overcast skies and a bit a rain. True to form, it kept raining throughout our time in Vancouver – Rainy Vancouver (the period in Vancouver I grew to hate when I lived here). We made the best of it as the weather can change so dramatically from rain to sun all in the same day. Unfortunately we only saw the sun for a couple of brief ...
LC / BC
... these areas we're quite different a few years ago. And certainly there are still areas today, whole towns or even whole provinces, where the local gang/guerilla/traffickers (hard to sort them apart) run the show and the locals behave accordingly. But these are generally areas off the tourist circuit. Colombians themselves, having spent a decade or so largely keeping to "safe" areas, are now starting to get out and tour their own country. But it's a militarized place. ...
Doing the Vancouver rounds (and a hockey game)
... sports shops for some spanking new ski gears (new skis, boots and poles for both of us, and a new jacket for Aza...very exciting!!).
Perhaps the biggest highlight however was managing to get tickets to a NHL (National Hockey League) ice hockey game in Vancouver's Roger's Arena. Greg was able to score us cheap tickets through a scouter for an otherwise sold-out game...again thank you Greg! Being a former ice hockey player himself, Aza going to a live game ...
Goodbye London, Hello Vancouver
... person. A lot of families also live in this older part of the city, where it is more green and feels more residential than highrise Yaletown. We are only 15 mins walk from the beach at English Bay, which is really nice.
The other areas of Vancouver are Coal Harbour and Gastown, both areas which are close to the harbour where the seaplanes and seabus (which is actually a ferry) are. Gastown has a particularly tourist feel and houses the infamous ...
So whose idea was inline rollerblading?
... speed. Approaching a road I found that I couldn't stop, but fortuitously there was a zebra crossing which I took at a rate of knots (at this point Frank Spencer came to mind - if you remember!). It was going well so far ( I thought). But coming to the other side of the road I went over a hillock and found myself going downhill yet again, accelerating fast. Then, ahead, I saw approaching me a kerb. I don't know what possessed me but at this point I decided ...


