Hampton Inn Vancouver Airport Hotel Richmond

... At 15h30 we listened to the 40 minute orientation session which gave us up to date information about the condition of the trail. The campsite at Logan Creek had been wiped out by a winter landslide and the Cheewat site was closed due to an habituated bear in the area. We had intended to stay at both of these sites, so we went back to our tent to rivise our plans over supper (noodles with salmon and veggies). While Stephane ...

... out for breakfast, continued to clean and pack up, after a mix up with a UPS pick up got our boxes sorted to send home to Australia, and went to meet some friends for dinner and drinks at a place up the road. We are nearly there now and just have the floors left to do and packing the car.<br><br>Tomorrow after we finalise things with our apartment and hand in the keys, we&#8217;ll head north and see where we end up. We are catching the ferry from Prince ...

... the goals are far to big for 7-aside in order to maximise 'entertainment', but the standards pretty low so I look good! I thought my teammate was going to burst into tears when we drew though, its all about the winning in this continent. Suprisingly I'm yet to meet a boro fan.<br><br>Anyhow that takes you up to date with my Canada life. Some of you will also know that I sneaked back to the UK for a couple of days last week for Em and Kates wedding! Some weather you guys are having hey ...

Ok ok so I'm pretty settled now and actually have done some stuff so this might make for better reading! I've been here about 10 days now and so I think I'm well placed to comment on every aspect of Vancouver and the general culture and history of Canada. Vancouver is STUNNING! I didnt really appreciate this until Saturday as its basically rained all the time, so whilst you can see its a nice place, most stuff is hidden by the weather (eg ...

... this will be * gre*t fit for 2IC, I w*s quite stunned!! But, it should be interesting - I'll be working in * 7-d*y tr*ding store *nd h*ve *lre*dy been booked for two "soci*l events" (****-ups, re*lly!!) for the next week!! It'll m*ke my house-hunting f*irly interesting!! Anyw*y, so I celebr*ted on Frid*y night *nd ended up h*nging out with *n Aussie guy, * Kiwi guy, * J*p*nese guy *nd * Mexic*n guy (there's * short*ge of fem*les *t this hostel ...

... and bought a fresh loaf of sourdough (which we all happily dipped in the soup), and the most delicious melt-in-your mouth hot cross buns! The perfect amount of mixed fruit and spices. Yum. (My apologies to all who are on a diet, but I just had to share). By the time we'd done that, looked at the Kid's Market (most of the stuff a bit over-priced), we caught a ferry (probably better described as a dingy with an engine), and headed back ...

... proud of this. The hostel we stayed in was in the national park itself and near the area that we planned to hike in. The hostel was easily the coolest we've stayed in on this trip, it consisted of a network of log cabins up a forested hill in the middle of nowhere, served only by an infrequent bus service. Unfortunately due to our lack of planning ahead we could only stay in the hostel a single night as it was booked out. So we just stayed in a nearby motel for our ...

... us to stay overnight as we felt uncomfortable about sleeping in the Van outside the previous owner's house in an unlicensed and uninsured vehicle. Zach had a wonderful time playing hockey on the street with the boys. They have a lovely house in a very quiet suburb. Later that night we made 2 further calls to NZ, to the local Napier office to make sure that the Insurance documents would be correctly sent for the next day

... yesterday that I decided to go on this adventure. I guess this is a good time to test out the photo uploading aspect of this travelpod.  So here's a pic from last Saturday's night of debauchery, care of DJs Timeline, JT, and Dirty South.  

we got away yesterday by car and ferry to the city, we will catch a shuttle soon to the air port. Tessa and Dayne seem so much more mature than the last big trip to England three summers ago and while it is three years Dayne way so much a little boy last trip this time a young ...