Day 6 Today we started the first stage of a 2day adventure on the Rocky Mountaineer which starts in Vancouver at 8.00am and end in Kamloops at 5.15pm. The first section of the trip is fairly slow as the train works it way out of the city . Slowly but surely the train gathers speed and the high rise building disappear bring forth the wilderness. The smoke from the wildfires is still making the possibility of seeing more that 100 meters impossible. The photos beca...

Day 5 To day is moving day, not that we are moving far just across town, we going west to east , this is the more posh side of town. Here we have Robson street which is the same as Hollywood boulevard . One block from the unit we hail a cab ,5minute later we arrive at Georgia Court Motel home for a day. We register ,settle in and decide to go and see a couple of well known places over here, Granville Island Markets and theVandusen Botanical Gardens. I asked t...

Day 4 sees us Off on a bus and walk adventure to the great Vancouver icon Stanley park. We leave the unit and straight for our favourite coffee shop the Birds &Beets ,have our usual and go for the that will drop us the park . It is a two part day with exploring the parK during the day and in the evening going to a modern version of thr Shakespearian play " Much ado about Nothing". The bus drops us at the 2nd stop in the park and it is from here our adventur...

Day 3 began early ,up at 6 but head wakes you at 5 , coffee, bag packed and ready by 7.00 am for today we are taking a small 35 minute flight to Vancouver Island to explore another part of Canada.As it was yesterday the smoke is still with and the possible air views don't exist but hay you can't have it all.We left watery runway right on time in the red plane in the photos at 8.00am. In these these type planes there is a real need to be lean as although it takes ...

Hi all, here we go again, day 2. We are off to see two very important place in Vancouver 1 Capilano Suspension bridge 2. Grouse Mountain The suspension Bridge is 450 ft ( 137 m) long and 230 ft high (70 m) high and been here since 1889. The bush land around this beautiful bridge ranges from sapling to trees 205ft by 20ft by 400/800 years old . It was very peaceful for a while and the silent was refreshing, then as if a sudden storm had hit the noise level rose by...