Blogs from Canada, North America - page 1266

If this works, will use this for the upcoming trip overseas!!! ... read more

We went to see a Fred Herzog exhibition at the Vancouver art gallery on Tuesday night, which is, incidentally CHEAP Tuesday. I love that even art galleries and museums prescribe to cheap Tuesday’s here. We plan to go to the museum of anthropology next Tuesday ;-) I digress. So, yeah, we went to see the Fred Herzog exhibition. For those of you who do not know, he is a Vancouver-based photographer, who specialises in taking documentary-type photo’s of the city as he sees it and using vibrant colour. His work just captures the ugliness, chaos and beauty of the city perfectly. Nothing staged or pretentious, but everything suddenly looked like art - neon signs, advertising banners and posters, litter, people, building fronts, skylines, cars … the way he just captured and framed the world around ... read more

Nipped down to the local store (spa shop) for some essentials like, extra bar tenders ceaser mix and a giant watermelon (which I seem to be eating about 4 a week). Slight change from the regular pint of semi skimmed and loaf of bread. And noticed that if needs be there are fresh live lobsters swimming round in a huge tank in case I get peckish. Went via the local movie store where I am becoming quite the regular and they don’t even ask my name any more, just taken back a film called ‘friends with money’ staring Jennifer Aniston, thankfully not doing her normal Rachel character. Strange film with no real story line of 4 friends each with varying degrees of wealth and all messed up in their own special way. Move scoring of ... read more

Here’s what happens to working holiday travel blogs: interlaced between rambles about climbing, you start reading about television, work, shopping (coming soon - I promise), cooking (also coming soon), housework even, (why not?). Right now, I thought I would share my standard jog route with you. By standard, I mean it is the jog I do when I do not have enough time to be creative or discover new trails. I probably end up doing this jog every second or third day. I run along the laneway behind our house, through a section of forest and then down through the middle of a pretty (but not exactly wilderness) boulevard and back. It’s a good combination of hills and forest and park. Probably only about 8 to 10 KMs in total. I love running back and ... read more

Untitled Hey Nackers, Well after all the hype and excitement of Whistler it was on to have some rest in Vancouver... Not really, we still had to find some Canadians with at least a 5 year olds knowledge of cricket. I mean they all scratch their noggins and proclaim "Cricket? You have to know what a crumpet is to understand cricket" or "Doesn't it have a wooden ball" Anyway this is how Beefie and I have explained it. 1. You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. 2. Each man that in the side that's in goes out and when he is out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. 3. When they are all out the side that's out comes in and the side that's been ... read more