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The Travelling Canucks live in Vancouver, Canada. Staying in great places, visiting interesting sights and meeting fascinating people is what we love about travelling.

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• Staycationing in Vancouver in the summer, fall and winter of 2009. Look for our blogs about our experience when Vancouver's Winter Olympics open in February 2010.

• Four week trip to Egypt over Christmas Break, December 2008 to January 2009. We travelled to Alexandria, Siwa Oasis, Cairo, Aswan, Luxor, and Abu Simbel.

• Three week trip to the Iberian Peninsula and Morocco over Spring Break, March to April 2007. We travelled to Lisbon, Sintra, and Cascais, Portugal; Barcelona, Granada, Seville, Segovia, Toledo and Madrid, Spain; and, Marrakesh, Fes and Rabat, Morocco.

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By Travelling Canucks
November 19th 2009

The Tale of Two Chinatowns North America » Canada » British Columbia » Vancouver

Gate to Chinatown
New gate in old Chinatown in Vancouver. One of top three Chinatowns in North America prior to it falling out of favor with wave of new immigrants.

Old Meets New The tale of two Chinatowns is one of "old" meets "new". Vancouver's Chinatown being old and Richmond's Asian "Golden Village" being new. While we would not recommend visiting Chinatown for either Chinese dining other than Wild Rice on its outskirts, an evening destination, or a contemporary shopping spree, if you appreciate architecture, traditional Chinese culture, and history, then it's certainly worth a look. For Chinese dining and shopping, head out to Richmond on the Canada Line to the Aberdeen Mall, Parker Place or Yaohan Centre on No. 3 Road in Richmon [View Full Entry]

By Travelling Canucks
November 14th 2009

Living on the Westside, not the Wildside! North America » Canada » British Columbia » Vancouver

Westside Heritage Homes
1918 Craftsman home located on a heritage streetscape.

Neighbourhood Hopping on the Westside Hopping south across the Burrard Street, Granville Street and Cambie Street bridges, Vancouver's westside offers tourist attractions embedded in its residential neighbourhoods that feature single-family dwellings, tree-lined streets, shopping districts, and private schools, clubs and golf courses. Queen Elizabeth Park, VanDusen Gardens, Nitobe Gardens, University Endownment Lands, public beaches and golf courses, University of British Columbia, museums, live theatre venues and Granville Island Public Market are visitor highlights. On some [View Full Entry]

By Travelling Canucks
November 4th 2009

Vancouver History 101 North America » Canada » British Columbia » Vancouver

Spanish Banks

Vancouver's History Comes Alive The Hudson's Bay Company set up Fort Langley in 1827 as part of its network of fur-trading posts across Canada. Today, visitors to Fort Langley National Historic Site of Canada can walk in the footsteps of British Columbia's pioneers. The Travelling Canucks recommend a visit since we enjoy the interactive exhibits and talks with knowledgeable costumed interpreters. Nestled in an agricultural setting, the village of Fort Langley offers historical charm and two museums in addition to the Fort Langley National Historic Site. It's well worth a visit! [View Full Entry]

By Travelling Canucks
October 6th 2009

Life's a Beach North America » Canada » British Columbia » Vancouver

English Bay
View from beach along Point Grey Road.

Beautiful English Bay Granted the Travelling Canucks are not beach babes, but we love sitting like blobs on a log at the beach, walking or cycling along the seawall, or just driving by the beach to enjoy the scenery! You might find us at the beach watching the sunset, beachcombing for shells or shutterbugging, you just won't find us in bathing suits! With approximately 18 km/11 miles of beaches surrounding Vancouver's English Bay to explore, there are miles of sand to make sandcastles and lots of vantage points to watch windsurfers, kiteboarders and sailors catchin [View Full Entry]

Burrard Bridge - Entrance to False Creek

By Travelling Canucks
October 3rd 2009

Sensational Stanley Park North America » Canada » British Columbia » Vancouver

Horse-drawn Carriage Rides
Touring Stanley Park in style -enjoy the views!

Sensational Stanley Park Stanley Park, a National Historic Site named after Lord Stanley, Governor General of Canada in 1888 when the park was officially opened, is the crown jewel of the city's 200 parks. Eight million visitors per year to North America's third largest urban core park (400 hectares/ 1,000 acres) makes Stanley Park one of Vancouver's top attractions. The cool, lush, evergreen second and third growth forest of Douglas Firs, Western Red Cedars, Western Hemlocks, and Sitka Spruce trees gives the park a more naturalistic look than most urban parks. Three [View Full Entry]

By Travelling Canucks
September 24th 2009

Uptown Downtown North America » Canada » British Columbia » Vancouver

Vancouver's Skyline
From Stanley Parks' Seawall at dusk. Reflections of the city with its spectacular skyline.

Reflections on Vancouver's Downtown Vancouver's downtown is a community of business and neighborhood districts where people work, live, shop, and enjoy the urban west coast lifestyle. Vancouver's downtown districts include: the business district where the Senior Canucks work and residential districts including the West End, Coal Harbour, and Yaletown. Shopping districts include the West End's Davie Street and Denman Street off English Bay, Robson Street and Granville Street with its large subterranean mall, Pacific Centre. Gastown and the Downtown Eastside are downt [View Full Entry]

By Travelling Canucks
September 19th 2009

The Drive - One Funky Neighbourhood North America » Canada » British Columbia » Vancouver

Streetscape on the Drive
Oldest institution in the former Italian neighbourhood -Cafe Calabria

THE DRIVE For Vancouverites born and raised on the Westside, we enjoy "visiting" the freewheeling, artsy-folksy-funky and offbeat eastside neighborhood every summer on Vancouver's Commercial Drive, aka The Drive. Admittedly, we look and feel a little out of place, but nevertheless, it's fun venturing on the wild side once in a while since it's where divas, dykes and "addicts" roam the streets. For this reason alone, it's fun to go to The Drive and just watch the people stroll by. This summer was no different when we headed down to The Drive, except this year we brought our ca [View Full Entry]

By Travelling Canucks
September 8th 2009

Great Times at Granville Island North America » Canada » British Columbia » Vancouver

Welcome to Granville Island
One of our favourite places in Vancouver. Located under Granville Bridge in the neighbourhood known as False Creek, the public market is a great place to visit, rain or shine.

Granville Island Over 10 million visitors per year couldn't be wrong.... for tourists and Vancouverites alike, it's a great place to visit, rain or shine, and soak up the Westcoast lifestyle! Granville Island features the best public market, a live entertainment district, artist galleries and working studios, and a maritime market. Formerly an industrial area, potters, weavers, printers, and jewellers work in studios that were once foundries and machine shops and performers have taken to the streets and filled empty warehouses with their shows. The Granville Islan [View Full Entry]

By Travelling Canucks
September 6th 2009

Historic Gastown North America » Canada » British Columbia » Vancouver

Gastown's Steam Clock
Check out the clock on the corner of Water Street and Cambie Street on the half-hour for its unique chime.

Why Visit Gastown? Gastown is a mix of "hip" contemporary fashion and interior furnishing boutiques, art galleries, coffee shops, restaurants, and nightclubs located in one of Canada's national historic sites. While Gastown is one of Vancouver's tourist attractions, residents in social and newly upscale housing, workers in professional offices and internet businesses, and students attending acting and film schools call Gastown home. Like most tourist attractions, it has its share of souvenir shops too! Located at the northeast end of the Downtown, adjacent to the infamo [View Full Entry]

By Travelling Canucks
September 1st 2009

Vancouver Staycation North America » Canada » British Columbia » Vancouver

Travelling Canucks at Vancouver International Airport
Wait a minute.....Mama, Papa and Junior Canuck are staycationing!

Why Staycation? After taking all our 2009 vacation allotment earlier in the year to tour Egypt for four weeks, our family, aka The Travelling Canucks, decided to be tourists in our own hometown over this summer's weekends. On weekdays, we slaved at our desks looking out of our downtown office windows and counted the hours until our next weekend adventure! Staycationing was definitely a trend this summer with the challenging economic times we have been facing. Although there are short trips we could have taken around our beautiful province, we decided to save our money for [View Full Entry]

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