Travel Vancouver, BC – LET THE OLYMPIC GAMES BEGIN!

At 7:30 PST yesterday I had a burst of olympic spirit and sat down in front of the PC to check out the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympiad.  Having some technical difficulties, my family and I frantically surfed until I located a couple of live streamed telecasts.  Finally we were ready to go, and enjoyed the next few hours of wonderfully synchronized skating, poetry, music, and aerial acrobatic super slalomers and snowboarders.  It was a very heart warming celebration punctuated by

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WINTER ACTIVITIES IN VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA

Every winter in Edmonton, when the world outside is covered in large amounts of snow, and wind gusts blow chilly air into all the nooks and crannies that haven’t been well enough covered up, I hibernate.  The whole family hibernates.  Even the kids don’t go out to play in the snow; we bring a bucket of it inside.  Right now, I am seeing all my Edmontonian friends chuckling and shaking their heads.  What wimps we are, afraid of a little cold and snow.  But, c’mon, I’m from Vancouver.  Winter in Vancouver (more…)

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 NATURAL BEAUTY OF VANCOUVER, CANADA (VIDEO)

As a former resident of Raincouver, I can attest to the amount of precipitation that the coastal city receives.  However, due to being in a temperate rainforest zone, Vancouver and most of the Wet Coast enjoys greenery that many have compared with the Emerald Isles.   The natural beauty of B.C.’s urban jewel is highlighted in this video that is displayed in lovely timelapse.  Reminescent of scenes on Baraka, I applaud the filmmakers for making me feel homesick.  Kudos. (more…)

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VANCOUVER’S CHINESE FOOD SECOND TO NONE

So you think you’ve had it good, eh?  Been to Beijing, you say?  Been to Taiwan?  Frisco?  Hong Kong?  Well, they’ve got nothing on Vancouver, so says Condé Nast Traveler, the hoity toity travel magazine.  Oh, you know the one, with the really thick paper and glossy covers, filled with drooly pages of places you want to visit.   Mark Schatzker, the Toronto writer for the magazine says that “… the experience in Vancouver left me trembling.”   (more…)

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VACATIONING WITH GOOD FRIENDS AND THEIR FAMILIES

Fifteen years ago, while still in school, peers were the people with whom I spent the majority of my leisure time.  Life was exciting and we shared a great deal.  There was (it seems now) all the time in the world to devote to nurturing friendships.  My closest friends and I have been together through graduation, first jobs, relationships, weddings.  We dreamed of raising families who would grow together.  And then, my husband and I moved to Edmonton (more…)

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