18 July – Wednesday
A cold, wet and miserable day in Vancouver. Started the day with a lovely pendant from Les and some nice emails before breakfast in the Irish Pub connected to this hotel. A big comedown from the hotel at Victoria – no strawberries, blueberries, pancakes, poached eggs or bacon. It was self serve cornflakes, muffins, toast, bagels and waffles. At least the coffee was in a mug, not a plastic cup!
As the weather was so bad, we decided to forego the delights of Grouse Mountain and settled for the hop on hop off bus tour, which was okay during the morning as the bus was covered in but the afternoon trip was on a half covered bus and we were in the open for quite a while – NOT PLEASANT!!! We spent most of the day at the Vancouver Aquarium, along with all the other tourists in Vancouver. However, we did get to stand in the rain for a fair while and watch the beluga whales (they smile just like dolphins!), the Pacific white-sided dolphins and the sea otters.
Vancouver hasn’t been one of our favourite places and, of course, the weather hasn’t helped. As well as some nice areas, there are lots of VERY sleazy and seedy areas where a lot of hotels (including ours) are. There is a “lady” with bright pink hair, a very short skirt and extremely high heels standing on the corner (I held Les’ hand very tightly as we walked past!), lots of peep shows (25 cents) adult video shops, tattoo shops and some very “interesting looking” people one doesn’t actually look at whilst passing.
3 comments:
Wow, it does look rather wet! Looks like you could use a spiffy new gore-tex raincoat like Shan got herself recently! I guess you must also be starting to feel like you're coming to the end of your travels, as you only have a few weeks to go. Jack's looking forward to Nanny and Grandpa coming home (and he even says Mum now too - he was saying it all morning today).
Jack can also say "Di Di Di" - I'm sure of it!!
Michael and Emma are loving all the photos, especially the ones of animals. They're also waiting waiting waiting for you to come home (I'm busy instructing them in the ancient McLean art of house confettiing).
Hope the weather is nicer at Disneyland!
Di.
Is that what we are doing this weekend, confetting!! Looking forward to it, got some good tips from someone I know. Didn't know Vencouver was that seedy, only been to the airport. I think Jack has almost got Nan too.
Shan
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