Vancouver- Stuffs Perspective

Vancouver is an awesome city mainly due to the fact you can get an 18 piece sushi meal with miso soup for $6.95.  This would include a California roll, Yam (sweet potato) roll, and tuna rolls.  Firstly the tuna is actually raw tuna and really meaty not the cooked mashed up with fork crap you get in the UK.  The other too are awesome, but I’m not going to explain, go to Vancouver and get stuck in. 

Vancouver is also awesome due to the fact that pretty much most people rely on people being honest and general prepared to pay there way if they can.  If you get on a bus and don’t have the right change you travel for free, yes for free!!  Now you would have thought everyone on the bus would conveniently not have the right change but no, everyone has travel cards or pays.  Sorry to be so down on the UK but I could not see this system working.  Anyone from the UK will instantly know why and if your not I’ll say it simply, people would not bother to pay.  Also when we travelled on the sea bus between Vancouver and North Vancouver no one ever checked our tickets, it always said have your tickets ready for inspection but they were never checked.  Amazing.

My experience of public transport in the UK is generally overcrowded, dirty and over priced.  God I hate being down on the UK as it is an awesome place but it is so difficult when you visit other places that are just much better organised.   

One more example.  We travelled to Vancouver Island to go whale watching and left Hobbits car in a car park.  We totally messed  up our timings had to stay in Victoria, which by the way is awesome.  We realised that the parking ticket was going to run out on hobbits car and we thought it might get towed.  We stressed about it, called up the ferry company who gave us the car park companies number.  We called them gave them all the information we had which was not much, they told us not to worry they would find the car and place a ticket on the window which we could settle the next day.  I was amazed by this because if it had been the UK you would have got through to someone who would have said there was nothing that could be done, returned to your car to find a meat head who had clamped your car and would then be demanding to £250 release fee and £250 admin fee.  Not in Canada my friend you get nice people who will go out of there way to help you.  Sorry UK but we need a change, rather than trying to screw each other over at every opportunity we should try and help each other.  Yes it nauseates me to say that.

By Stuff