I was just on Granville Island having a beer with Wayne (visiting from Germany), when suddenly hundreds of naked cyclists came rolling by! A quick google back home and I found out that this is the yearly World Naked Bike Ride – a protest to “put a stop to the indecent exposure of people and [...]
Last week we went to Vancouver Island for three days with my mother. We had great weather the whole time, and I think made the most of the short time we had. We had to get up pretty early to catch the 08:30 ferry across from Horseshoe bay to Nanaimo, then go collect the car [...]
Last week my mother arrived in Vancouver for the first part of her four week holiday in Canada. We had a grand time: Day 1 Went to Granville Island to browse the artisan shops and the public market Took the cute little boat across False Creek Walked through West end to Canada Place (saw a [...]
This Friday we went for a hike at the Lynn Headwaters Regional Park up to Lynn Peak. The trail is pretty demanding with 800m climb in 4.2km distance to the peak, but really beautiful through the forest, and we only met a couple of people the whole day. Near the top we sat for a [...]