Visited a brewery over at Granville island seems craft breweries are the go here
First day we went for a walk around Canada place asked where the visitor information office was and was told it’s closed- that we discovered is the attitude towards tourists not a welcoming or nice city at all
One highlight on our second day was to go to a local Greek festival
Found the revolving restaurant in the middle of the city, great views and we thought we’d treat ourselves although we were judged by the girl at the entrance who told us that we’d have to order 2 mains if we wanted to sit with a view….wow we must look like hobos 😕
Best meal out at the Greek festival
Further views from the revolving restaurant
Downtown gastown
An advertisement I thought you’d enjoy Colleen
Went for a walk on grouse mountain nice sunny day
Went to the university to see the botanic gardens but was surprised with northern summers they closed early, nothing about opening times on their brochure everything you have to look up on the web. Also they charge here to go to botanic gardens! Stopped for dinner and this is a small entree size nachos
When the gardens were closed we went for a walk down to wreck beach, my pedometer that day said I did 18 flights it was steep climb up and down.
Info on the steam clock only historical thing we could find in Vancouver
Only a couple of streets away from this is the worst homeless, tent city I’ve ever seen. People so drugged up asleep and unaware on cardboard boxes, tents lining the streets and young people who are absolutely putrid smelling. We thought it was garbage until we walked past one fellow, poor things. One fellow was walking with his trousers hanging down and his genitalia hanging out bent over picked up an old cigarette then decided to pull his pants up 😑
My average steps per day
I wondered if I was judging the city too harshly until I googled and saw this review that in my view was spot on.
Some nice gardens on the verge here
Stanley park was nice to visit some totem poles along a walk
The steam clock
Trees on grouse mountain
Views from the revolving restaurant
View of Stanley park from on high
Japanese gardens
I do like their colourful P.O. Boxes
Where our cruise will take off tomorrow- although that’ll be interesting as it’s been quite stressful since arriving ArriveCAN- has been asking me not Colm to quarantine although I’m fully vaccinated and no symptoms of COVID. Apparently it’s a glitch in the system and your told to ignore the notifications once I actually got to speak to someone first thing they asked was how did I get their ph number …. Your told to contact them and you send through feedback on their written program but still get asked to report? Then Holland America tell us to use this program to report our medically supervised rat test (we did) then we get the message back that they don’t accept this 🙃 or our international COVID vaccination record - 🤬many ph calls later we’re told no it’s VeriFLY nothing to do with the cruise ship - ok so why send us an email about it? Tomorrow better be smooth sailing
Little ferries that go to Granville island
View from Stanley park
More forest, fir trees so no undergrowth
Totem poles
The first 4 days were pretty overcast
Art display at Granville island
The other part of the review
Girl in a wetsuit at Stanley park
Other ferries
Enjoying a wine and dinner on our last night here
The steps up from the beach
Lovely salmon meal
Squirrels tale
If you look closely took a quick photo of one of the corners of tent city, everywhere you smell marijuana as it’s legal here but one wonders if that is a good thing seeing all the homeless drug affected people here
Love the saying on the shirt
The bay - so many sea planes take off and land from here
Lots of buildings use wood here from the beach we saw where the wood was stored before being towed away.
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