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Vancouver Baby,

So we've been in Vancouver for a little over two weeks, but we have had little time to post and less internet so forgive our absence from the airways, I will now try to do some catching up.

So our lovely friend, SCUBA Goddess, Canadian, and knower of all things good, Rika made us an awesome suggestions list of things that should be done in Vancouver. this can be found on her awesome blog at http://www.cubiclethrowdown.com.

We have begun trying to tick of as much as we can fit in. So far we have done the following,

Walking through the crazies to China town.

So we started our Canadian adventure in Gas Town. This was a pretty convenient location and was an OK hostel with a bar serving amazing dry ribs (The Cambie Hostel). From here China town is a short walk away, unfortunately its a short walk through Hastings which to quote Rika is infamous for homeless people, needles on the ground, hookers and drug dealers. This we can confirm. They are however relatively harmless crazies and seem more interested in shouting at the people inside their heads than harassing us too much, although a ridiculous amount of people will ask for change in a multitude of often bizarre ways, including telling you jokes or drawing your picture on a cardboard box.

Found Rikas favorite sushi bar, and eaten our weight in Sushi

We tracked down Zero One Sushi. It was yummy, we have however been eating Sushi every day its about the only thing in Vancouver that's cheap, and its so cheap and so so so good!!!
We would recommend Sushi Bang, its very tasty and cheap but a little out of town near Cambie and Broardway.

Walked through Kits park to the Planetarium
We decided to head to the planetarium, but overshot it a little on the bus and had to walk down through Kits and the park. Its very pretty lots of posh cars. However we ended up not getting to the Planetarium till fairly late so decided we'd come back when we had more time. So we walked over Granville bridge and around English Bay. 

Checked out the sea wall

From the Cambie Hostel we took several walks along the sea wall to watch the sea planes (sea planes are awesome!!!) and read the information boards they have. I know its sad but they're pretty interesting snippets of Canadian history, like about importing Camels and treating the Chinese badly. We also sat in Coal Harbor Park a few times in the sun. 

Granville Island
We missioned over to Granville Island from Grouse Mountain. We have been getting very good with the public transport system this is helped by the fact its awesome, sea buses, electric bus/trollies and sky trains all link up with ease and you never seem to have to wait more than 15mins for anything. The Public Market is really really cool, its just full of yummy stuff from fruit and meat stalls to huge whole salmon. We had a good walk round before stopping for several beers in the sun overlooking the water. Lovely!!!



We are looking forward to trying to fit in more, particularly the Electric Owl and Wreck Beach. We have driven through Stanley park lots but will hang out there before we leave.

Thanks Rika

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