Bucket list
Now that I’m back, I’ve been asked difficult questions: what was my favorite country? My favorite food? My best experience? I didn’t really think in terms of “the best” while I was traveling. Some food have held some importance, such as dark chocolate TimTam in Australia… because I bought them for the end-of-a-hike comfort food,…
Flying home
Day 326 – Vancouver, Canada – Day 327 – Paris, France I know, I know, I’m wrapping up my accounts quite a bit late, even though I backdate my notes! I spent my last days in Vancouver relaxing, shopping a bit, wandering a few places I hadn’t yet visited, such as Gastown and its steam…
Steveston fishing village
Day 323 – Vancouver, Canada I may have written how I met a Canadian couple in Chile who invited me to get back in touch with them when I was in Vancouver -and they actually followed my blog and didn’t forget me. They took me to explore the Steveston, a small town South of Vancouver…
Inukshuk
Day 320 – Vancouver, Canada I was hoping for the same nice weather as yesterday, so I went on a long walk along the sea in downtown Vancouver. It held mostly true, though the wind was quite present as well! Walking along the seafront, I was lucky to see a heron waiting for fish in…
Lighthouse Park
Day 319 – Vancouver, Canada Back to walking! Between the hostel’s cheat sheet and the guidebook Solène left me, I had a list of parks with interesting hikes. Lighthouse park came touted with cliffside lookouts, strenuous but short climbs, and great view over Vancouver. Of course, it also include almost an hour’s commute to get…
Errands
Day 318 – Vancouver, Canada Even when you travel, sometimes, you have to take care of errands. I started by going to the transit card customer services, because I was charged an extra 5 dollars and I wanted to know why. Seems that it is the airport charges I incurred when coming back from accompanying…
Bowen Island
Day 315 – Vancouver, Canada Solene’s last day in Canada was forecast to be a sunny day (we have had at least three of those so far!), so we planned for a day excursion on Bowen Island, an island which you can reach in an hour and a half from Vancouver centre, with a cheap…
Stanley Park
Day 314 – Vancouver, Canada Stanley Park is a famous site of Vancouver, its “green lung” as we say in French. Therefore, we had planned to have a picnic there, hoping for a welcoming patch of grass in the sun. Even though it is quite close to our hostel, we managed to get mixed up…
Museum of Anthropology
Day 313 – Vancouver Museums are a classical occupation for a rainy day. A well-thought look at the weather forecast had allowed us to plan a visit to the Museum of Anthropology. As it is the first museum mentioned in my guidebook, and is highly praised by it, we were quite surprised to find out…
Botanical Garden
Day 312 – Vancouver, Canada Sometimes you have to remember that holidays are meant to be a time to get some rest. That is why we decided to sleep in and not rush our visits today. Taking our time in the hostel, we noticed that there is no cooking stove in the kitchen. We still…