Oh Canada

Vancouver Harbour is a sight to behold. Along the waterfront, called Canada place, there is a replica of a ship's bow topped by white sails. This is what you are looking at from the Harbour Tower just a couple of blocks away from Canada Place.

Vancouver is beautiful...clean and easy to navigate. Moira and I wandered around - and shopped-SURPRISE! Made it to a movie at this funky movie house too. Most of the buildings downtown have these amazing waterfalls, sometimes they are cascading down from a great height. Wish they could export half of it to Aus...that would fill up our dams. Along with the water features, there were beautifully kept "gardens"- all in all a very pleasant city.

We also visited Vancouver Island -namely Victoria.


A hour and a half on the ferry each way-which doesn't include getting to the ferries. Victoria is a gorgeous little city. We ate lunch at the Empress hotel -a very imposing hotel with the usual manicured gardens.


It was a beautiful day and we strolled along the waterfront looking at the market stalls, and then made it half way up government street, but got stopped at a jewelers and that was our tour of Victoria. Short but sweet.

After a few days we got ready to go to Alaska on a cruise ship....stay tuned for the next installment.
Ciao
Genie