http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/Stanley-Park/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , Canada , British Columbia , Vancouver , Stanley Park en-us Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:01:53 BST Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:01:53 BST Hello again thought I better get you up to date with our Vancouver stay before I move on in Ontario againThanks for all the comments nice to hear from you all. And Bob well done for painting the house and making apple crumble Michael would be proud of you.Anne and Rosslyn I hear you are in touch now and will be able to meet up in NZ great stuff this internet for travelling and making n http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/Stanley-Park/blog-332972.html DAY 2Well it seems like I'm not the only one who can get lost Charlies 6 miler turned into 9 after getting lost in Stanley Park and stumbling upon 4 raccoons luckily she realised they could be dangerous when they got within a foot or so.Once we were finally reunited we jumped on the Vancouver Trolley tours bus and headed for Granville Island which included a 2 minute ferry 10 people max http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/Stanley-Park/blog-329889.html Day 1 of 84We had a fairly uneventful flight and public bus transfer to our hostel in Downtown VancouverI'm referring to our hostel as Jungle Book as it seems to have the bear necessities but for 40 for a double ensuite it's perfectThe biggest surprise of the day was that Charlies bag weighed less than mineWe managed to go for a pleasant walk along Beach Avenue and found a really good pla http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/Stanley-Park/blog-328557.html Its just gone 6 am and we had to get up early to vacate the room by 8am. We took all our bags and headed for breakfast. We needed to then wait in the theater to be called out by our number and colour.We were purple 14. We were supposed to be called out at about 9.20am but only got called out at 10am. We then made our wayto the Canadian border. This took a while...Finally getting passed the border http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/Stanley-Park/blog-326468.html Another great YVR layover. I decided to walk the seawall this time instead of renting a bike. I got up this morning and after a few cups of coffee and some fruit. I dressed and headed out for the walk. The weather was fantastic the sky was mostly clear and the it was cool and dry. What a contrast to a few days ago in Cancun where it was 96 degrees and 100 humidity. After the walk I met up http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/Stanley-Park/blog-315113.html After spending an afternoon recovering from our evening with the crazy Fijians we woke bright and fresh and ready to explore the city. Vancouver is located on a small peninsula and set against a backdrop of a 4000 5000 foot high mountain range which still had snow on it even though we were getting 30 degree days in the city what sort of crazy place is this. Vancouver is surrounded on three http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/Stanley-Park/blog-310559.html Hoy ha sido un da intensivo...tanto que casi se me cierran los prpados delante de la pantalla...El primer plan del da ha sido ir andando hasta Stanley Park all me he alquilado una bicicleta tena grandes dudas respecto a esto pues el cielo estaba realmente gris y haca un da desagradable pero no me he dejado desanimar por las inclemencias...La placentera ruta se ha desarrollado sin probl http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/Stanley-Park/blog-295502.html So this adventure continuesManish and I are heading off to London to visit with his famliy before heading to Italy for a week. After we return to London I fly to India to complete my advanced teacher training at Yoga Vidya Dham and Manish flys back to Vancouver for 5 weeks with out me.It will have been 1 year and 4 months since I left the ahsram. I have had a little over a year of experience te http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/Stanley-Park/blog-294927.html We got back from Hawaii on Saturday morning it was amazing There is a place called Hanuma Bay which is a submerged volcanic crater where there is load of coral and fish so we hired snorkelling and went and had a look I seem to be more tanned than burnt now which is the best way round I think and the time difference to Vancouver is only 3 hours so the jetlag isn't too badToday Pam and I clim http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/Stanley-Park/blog-285251.html Stanley Park it is named after Lord Stanley and is the 3rd largest city owned park in North America. There were only 2 bus stops in Stanley Park with one being at the entrance and the other in the middle of the 1000 acre park by the aquarium. Bernie thought we should get off at the entrance but I thought it would be better to be dropped off at the 2nd one. Boy was I wrong What our original plan http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/Stanley-Park/blog-282687.html Decided we would try a cheap breakfast so we opted for the Denny's across the street from our hotel. Well obviously cheap doesn't apply to food here. The prices were almost double of what we pay in Pennsylvania lol I ATTEMPTED to order the Salsa Denny without tomatoes and the Asian waiter said to me a couple of times There's no meat on it I was like OK that's fine. I know that. there w http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/Stanley-Park/blog-282318.html HelloI have been in Vancouver for a few days and have been enjoying chilling out after the amtraking I spent a couple of days in Boston which was great. I met up with some friends from LSE and Sc Po and was able to experience the famous boston seafood although the plastic bib and tools for the lobster are pretty funnyI walked along the Freedom Trail which was a great way to see everything an http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/Stanley-Park/blog-281618.html After a series of phone calls from Ruth began to narrow down the likely Olympia rendezvous day to Sunday evening Judy was sure that her hostess friend's patience was on the verge of evaporation. Having come armed with her bordercrossing paraphernalia she hopped a bus up to Vancouver for a quick return to her Home and Native Land and a visit with Vicky Yehl a diamond geologist of some renown. A http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/Stanley-Park/blog-278494.html Hot hot hot...... 32c We had a full day in Vancouver today it was a short drive over the Lion Bridge from our hotel in Nth Vancouver to Stanley Park. Which is situated in the city area. We purchased a hop on hop off ticket for the trolley tram. We became real tourists for the day we enjoyed the city finding it spacious with lovely colourful gardens around every corner. We managed to do a http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/Stanley-Park/blog-277400.html We have been in Vancouver since 11 May it is a really lovely city with huge high rises beautiful ocean. We have enjoyed visiting Stanley Park Capalino Bridge and Grouse Mountain.On our first day we went on the big red bus hop on hop off. Went to Granville Island Market great fresh fruit and veges must go back there when we get off the cruise so we can be self sufficient and not have to ea http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/Stanley-Park/blog-276414.html After a big night it's a late start but we're up and ready around 1pm. A little overcast and a slight chill in the air but nothing to stop us from heading down to the Beautiful Stanley Park again via East Hastings of course for a spot of 'Pitch n Putt'. After establishing that we all completely SUCK at golf unless it's going 'Happy Gilmore' style and smashing it as hard as you can which do http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/Stanley-Park/blog-273646.html DAY TWO 22 April Awake bright and early. Jed's starting to get a little frantic considering the phone calls he's making to window repair companies are quoting him between 9001200. Insurance is a no go as they've only got 3rd party and now we need to check out of the hotel get some brekky and get Corrie to the Bus station so he can head back to Whistler in time for work that eve.We hit a http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/Stanley-Park/blog-272001.html Amazing place http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/Stanley-Park/blog-263390.html Bonsoir a vous tousFin de la premiere journee... Plus que 3 heures avant mon vol vers BangkokJe voulais absolument vous dire a quel point cette journee fut tout a fait incroyableUn depart memorable un vol parfait des gens sympathiques une ville tout simplement enivrante... Oui je suis tombee sous le charme de VancouverApres avoir decouvert le centreville je suis allee faire mon tour a la http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/Stanley-Park/blog-262549.html Ben and I had a wonderful day out and about today. We finally got to visit Stanley Park aquarium today and it was fantastic. The animals are great whales dolphins otters and sea lions. We walked through and looked at all the fish snakes and turtles which were great but I couldnrsquot wait to see the beluga whales We watched the whale show and then the otter show. The otters were awesome http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/Stanley-Park/blog-239107.html To get into the Chirstmas Spirit Ben and I decided to go to Stanley Park for the afternoon after finishing and starting our Christmas shopping. I had been looking forward to going to Stanley park for the last two weeks but was waiting for a nice day to do it. Stanley park around Christmas is glowing with lights Santa and Christmas trees. We caught the bus there and the place was packed so we di http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/Stanley-Park/blog-230924.html Rainy days coming http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/Stanley-Park/blog-221368.html heeeyjaa ich weis ich hab laange nicht mehr geschrieben aber es ist halts in der zwischenzeit nicht mehr sooo spannendes passiert bzw. ich bin eigentlich im moment echt nur am arbeiten und wenn ich dann mal 2 tage meistesn am we frei habedann heisst es 1. laaange schlafen und dann ist der tag schon wieder um.. ich weis ich bin echt lazy geworden hier aber nach der arbeit bist du einfach tod http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/Stanley-Park/blog-216391.html hallo ihr lieben eine fast wunderschoene woche ist nun zuende bzw. die neue woche ist schon wieder angefangen..ich hab hier gar kein zeit gefuehl mehreine woche kommt mir vor wie 2 Tage von meinem freien tag am mittwoch hab ich ja schon geschrieben..der rest der woche war auch noch genauso schoen vom wetter her..arbeiten hat auch spass gemacht weil nicht viel zu tun war und wir dann auf de http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/Stanley-Park/blog-211633.html Samstag 6.10.2007Heute ist nichts wirklich besonderes von till number one zu berichten. War nur 2 im minus heute ich werde besser 61514 und dann habe ich heute meinen ersten lohnstreifen bekommen. Das erste geld was ich wirklich alleine verdient habe 60181 ohne abzuege 61514 im endeffekt sind es dann noch ganze 53903 fuer zwei wochen arbeit. Konnte auch zum ersten mal was von mei http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/Stanley-Park/blog-210479.html Ah. Spet en krasen dan. Sprva je sicer kazalo da bo ostudno kar se vremena tice ampak konec dober vse dobro.Ob 12h sem se dobila s Paulom pred restavracijo Galin Galin na Broadway Granville ker pa je bila zaprta smo se z Johnom in njegovo prijateljico Kate iz Anglije dobili v eni od kitajskih restavracij in the hood. Good replacement I must say Nazrli smo se spet kitajskih dobrot potem http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/Stanley-Park/blog-204106.html Well after three incredible months I find myself back home on Burnaby St and it's sunny. I can't even begin to describe all the emotions of returning. It was a very tiring journey home but now that I'm here I'm really happy to be back. Vancouver is the most beautiful city I've ever been to and I've got a lot to compare it to now. So here's the story of my last leg here. It was Sabina and A http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/Stanley-Park/blog-156841.html After almost a week straight of rain we woke up to sunny skies this morning. Wanting to take full advantage of this day we decided to head to Stanley Park to explore. We arrived at the front of the park at about noon and walked for about four hours. We walked around forever looking at random beaches and lakes. We even stumbled upon a couple teams playing cricket which for the aussie I was with wa http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/Stanley-Park/blog-153273.html The Swans are truly beautiful. I have so many wonderful pictures to share with you... and I want you to see them all The gray one is the yearling... we call him Austin. We think that the white one is his mom. I don't think I got any of Austin's dad this time but I will post some I took last fall here a bit later. Young swans are gray. As they reach maturity they become the white trumpeter swans http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/Stanley-Park/blog-139779.html Another delightful part of Stanley Park is Lost Lagoon. The area is known as Ch'elxwa7elch in the local first nations' language Coast Salish. The area of Lost Lagoon was shared by many of the first nations in the area as a gathering place for mussels and other sea harvesting. The rights to the harvest land is passed from generation to generation through marriage and inheritance rights. If you d http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/Stanley-Park/blog-139756.html