Archive for the ‘Vancouver’ Category

Live music in Vancouver

Monday, August 10th, 2009

The last few weeks we’ve had a few nice concerts! First was the Virgin Festival – we lucked out and were put on the guest list by a nice dude at a party the night before, so got in for free, where Alex and Carol had already paid about $70 each!  The line up there [...]

World Naked Bike Ride in Vancouver

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

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 [...]

Mum in Vancouver

Friday, June 5th, 2009

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 [...]

Sunny afternoon at the beach

Sunday, May 17th, 2009

Just a short post to brag: today Chrissi got off work early, so we went down to Jericho beach.  It was hot, sunny, and the view out on the bay with the sail boats framed by snow capped mountains was (to say it in Canadian) awsome!