Posts Tagged ‘festival’

Burning Man

Friday, September 18th, 2009

We’re still wondering how exactly to describe the experience.  Many people told us a lot about it before, and they all said that you can’t really explain or understand it till you’ve been there yourself.  To an extent it’s true – I think though mostly because everybody lives and experiences the city differently, and so [...]

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 [...]

Festival of Lights

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

Last night we went with Natalie, Michael, Carol and Alex to the “Festival of Lights” – a display of over 1.4 million lights in the Van Dusen botanical gardens.  It was very pretty, and with the fresh (and still falling) snow, quite magical, but also very very kitschy.  I think alone it would have been [...]