Shell - This morning started slowly as we are all exhausted from the many miles we have trekked around Vancouver. Today we headed off to the Sky Train and back to the airport to pick up the hire car which we need for the next part of our journey. For some reason I (Michelle) am down as a named driver LOL as if!!! After signing many pieces of paper we were directed to our vehicle which is a red JEEP, plenty of room in the back but only just enough room for John's ...

John - The weather seems to be turning, still cloudy in the morning but the sun quickly comes through. Today we decided to venture out of town to the Capilano Suspension Bridge. At the base of Grouse Mountain (which by the way is still capped by a big cloud otherwise the cable car trip would have been our next stop) we booked up at the Hotel and walked down to Canada Place to get the Shuttle Bus - through Stanley Park, over the Lions Gate Bridge and on to Capilan...

A funny old start to the day. We had planned to do Vancouver Aquarium, Stanley Park and Granville Island. We bought the tickets and got as far as the bus stop and it started to pour down with rain again !! of course Joe and I had no waterproofsso we planned to go back to hotel and start again. We got on a bus that just went in a circle an brought us right back to where we got on !! This was fate telling us just to get on with the day and stop messing about. So we...

Hello to anyone reading this. Sorry for the irregularity of these messages - it sounded easy at first - just log on and update every day ... some days you are just not that organised... it doesn't help that we don't have wireless in the hotel (I'm not paying $25 for what should be free!!)and so have to decamp to Starbucks - although that's no real problem as there is one on every street corner - mind you we have spent more than $25 on coffees and frappa-thingys -...

Hello All, We are here !!! Flight was uneventful, long (9hours) but pretty painless (apart from the fact that of the 300 people who were on board the flight there was one whose TV wasn't working - ME !!!!!!). Oh well, managed to bug Michelle for 9 hours, read a book and constantly fed and watered (cider & baileys kept me going). Masses of legroom as we booked row 1 so many years ago !! well worth it. For those concerned about my leg - i survived the flight - ...