Day 226: Vancouver wins me over So after returning from the relative tranquillity of the island I was thrust back into the hustle and bustle that was Vancouver.But Vancouver was a changed city.Now scorching hot if offered a plethora of activities by day and by night to occupy oneself with.Unfortunately all that would have to wait for me as I had to find myself somewhere to live for the next month.I attacked Craigslist - the local listings website advertising eve...

Day 197-8: Cycling to Sushi On our second day in Vancouver the weather wasn’t great. It was a little overcast and rainy but we had decided to go for a cycle ride around Stanley Park. Stanley Park is Vancouver’s version of Hyde Park or Central Park but it differs in that it has the sea coastline around one side of its perimeter which makes the ride pretty interesting – you can view the city skyline including huge yellow piles of sulpher in factories, ship...

Day 196: A setting sun Me, Tim, Alli and Steph travelled along the sea to sky highway to Vancouver, also referred to as the 99, pulling over at various viewing points to take in the magnificent views of the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean that lapped at the mountain's feet.Tim and Steph, who were driving, pulled over at every viewing point that they came across to take pictures, much to me and Alli 's amusement.I'd definitely recommend this drive to an...

Day 3: Yesterday we had our Bunac 'orientation' meeting which was ironically extremely disorientating. We received packs containing admin gold such as bank account forms - boring!! - for us to become proper temporary Canadian citizens and bizzarely all received differently flavoured condoms in each of our packs - what did they take us for!! At the meeting we got a gloomy forecast warning us about the difficulty getting jobs and accomodation in Whistler. Boy, w...

20/10/08: Urrgh, its been an 'interesting' 5 days in my life to say the least. In fact, only writing this did I realise that its only been 5 days. It feels like a lifetime. Ok, I'll start from the beginning... Day 1: Firstly arrived at Heathrow airport last Wednesday and met some top peeps. Sat next to a young lad called Tim for whole 9hours and we hit it off from the start. I should've seen the doom and gloom that would follow however from the fact that to my...