Canada Day by Day: First Stop, Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada
Time differences blow my mind. We take off from London Heathrow at 10:45 am, spend the equivalent of a working day plus commute in a flying tube then arrive at YVR at 11:45am. This makes today around 32 hours long. As if a 5am alarm call isn鈥檛 enough to mess up my sensitive body clock.
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Still, at least the weather will be鈥�.oh, it鈥檚 raining. We wrestle our suitcases 鈥� full on monsters this time, none of this聽carry on lark聽鈥� and other items onto the Skytrain. We miss a train whilst we queue behind various people that stare at the ticket machine as if they are trying to crack the Enigma Code. It鈥檚 a fifteen minute journey to Yaletown-Roundhouse where we emerge into torrential rain. We manage to find the 7-11 where our apartment keys are being held (this Keycafe thing is great) and then juggle the suitcases with a photograph of a Google map to locate our destination. We have a slight tussle with a non suitcase friendly barrier but otherwise we soon find our聽studio apartment聽and home for the next three days (As a bonus, I receive a message from our host suggesting that we stay on at the apartment until 7pm on Tuesday so we don鈥檛 have to worry about finding left luggage facilities. This is why i love Airbnb.) ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).
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Guide Name: Canada Day by Day: First Stop, Vancouver
Guide Location: Canada » Vancouver
Guide Type: Self-guided Walking Tour (Article (B))
Author: Emmalene Fletcher
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Guide Location: Canada » Vancouver
Guide Type: Self-guided Walking Tour (Article (B))
Author: Emmalene Fletcher
Read it on Author's Website:
Sight(s) Featured in This Guide:
- Tap Shack
- Gassy Jack
- Water Street
- Canada Place
- Mahony and Sons
- seawall
- English Bay Beach
- Granville Island Brewing Company
- Red Truck Beer Company
- Dubh Linn Gate
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