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This blogging lark is getting so frustrating as whatever I write keeps disappearing as soon as I try to publish it! However, I will keep trying even if there's a delay between what we've been up to & the appearance of the record of it!!
It seems that we have absolutely no good reason to complain about all the rain we've been experiencing - a lady from Calgary told us that snow is still falling there & the temperature is minus 27°! That makes it seem positively balmy here at 3°!
As it wasn't raining on Friday morning (10th) we decided to make the best of the fairly fine weather & caught the Skytrain to Waterfront then walked to the 554feet high Vancouver Lookout at the Harbour centre. We were hopeful that we would have good views of Vancouver & the mountains that tower over the city. We bought our tickets from an Australian from Melbourne who's a paediatric nurse but having a break to work in Canada for a while. We took tbe lift on the outside of the building up to the observation deck where we spent ages looking out at the city below us. At first we could just about make out the mountains but then the clouds rolled in again & it was as though there was nothing there! We looked down on Gastown, the oldest part of Vancouver, Coal Harbour, Stanley Park & Queen Elizabeth Park, which is the site of an ancient extinct volcano. We could also see Dominion Building, Vancouver's first steel framed high-rise which, when completed in 1910 was the tallest commercial building in the British Empire. Canada Place, built for Expo '86 stands out with its white teflon coated roof designed to resemble an ocean liner. One building is almost lost in the midst of all the tall modern offices & condos & that's The Marine Building, an Art Deco masterpiece which to me seemed to have so much more character than all the other edifices surrounding & dwarfing it!
When we came down from the Lookout we had a quick wander around Gastown, stopped for a coffee in one of the quirky little cafes & then walked to the station to catch a train back to Broadway. The threatened rain then decided to arrive so we grabbed some dinner in Wholefoods & returned to the B&B & the excitement of doing the washing, which I couldn't put off any longer as we were running out of warm clothes!
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Wendy M Oh no, not the washing, how mundane for you! But I think you can cope. All sounds so exciting and interesting! Hope Wigmore won't seem just tooooo boring! No tower to climb!!!! Have fun!