Blogs from Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, North America - page 3

Next stop, Vancouver! We opted to take the cheap way, bus to Vancouver. We are on a budget you know! So we need to start acting like it. The bus station was an experience in disorganization. It was everyone for themselves. I had an older Scottish women behind me pushing the whole way. We were 6 people from the ticket counter, but if more than 6 inches got between me and the person in front, she was leaning into me. It is a shame when peolple are so stressed over traveling they find it very hard to relax. So we fought our way onto the bus (luckily, we were much younger and manage to double team a few of them) which took about 1 hour to get to the ferry crossing from Vancouver Island to the ... read more

What could be more perfect than a sunny 75 degree day, a beautiful hotel room, a happy bus driver, and the yummiest chocolate dessert ever? Vancouver, B.C. is a small city with many different ethnic groups who all seem to get along. The population is about 578,000 with a large Asian contingent but also Indian, First Nation( the aboriginal people), slavs, and a smattering of everything else. The setting is to die for: a deep water harbor, home to several enormous cruise ships, surrounded by huge red cedar, fir, and hemlock trees, and bordered by the Coastal Mountain Range. Flying from Prince Rupert in a noisy prop plane I was stunned by the beauty of the mountains. Miles and miles of dark black crenulated folds looking like skirts on Southern belles of old who used to ... read more

Ok, well I'm here in Vancouver staying in a very nice hotel on the 27th floor with a nice view of the city straight ahead from me and if I look to my left, I have a view of the mountians which still have some snow on them, so I think I picked a good hotel. So after leaving Dee, Amy and Carly at the airport and after crying yet again, I boarded my plane and sat down between 2 girls, Jaimie, from Kansas and Amanda, from Chicago who was traveling with her husband Josh who is Australian. After about 8 hours one of the air hostess' asked if one of us could swap with an elderly lady as her leg was cramping up and as we had extra leg room, she asked us. So me ... read more

Stanley Park: One of my FAVORITE places!!! I feel IT is World Class, as is Vancouver... keep it up!!... read more

Various Vancouver The end is near. The last whole day in Vancouver began with a breakfast somewhere down in Robson street, I don't remember the name of the place. We had scrambled eggs, sausages, baked potatoes and toast, which is quite normal if you are Canadian but to our standards quite bizarre. Nonetheless, it provided the necessary energy to cope with the plans we had to rummage about Vancouver. And boy did we do Vancouver. Gastown, where it all began with some nice old buildings dating back to late 1800 and cobblestone streets. From Gastown we went exploring Vancouver's Chinatown and entered the serene quiet Dr Sun Yat-Sen Clasical Chinese garden. A must see, even though tranquility in the middle of a busy town is a relative concept. We browsed around a bit and we saw ... read more