My SFU pal Steve Ray tipped me to this little bit of travel goodness: you can now use Google to plan your city walking tour in Canada or further afield.
It’s free, fun and ridiculously simple: just plug in a starting address at citytours.googlelabs.com, select your dates and bingo–you’ve got the first draft of your tour [...]
Talk about glowing hearts–I just came through downtown Vancouver on a bus and if you could bottle the city’s buzz right now, you’d make a million overnight.
With these sorts of crowds, public transit is the only way to get around the roads during the 2010 Winter Games.
I just did a post about Vancouver’s “Top 5 [...]
Once upon a time a ferry boat was the only way to get to West Vancouver from Vancouver, BC. Now it’s an option again thanks to Coastal Link Ferries which is expanding its Bowen Island commuter run to include West Vancouver.
Starting Tuesday, Nov. 17 (and not Nov. 2 as previously reported), Captain Ihab Shaker will [...]
If you’re making the day-trip to Bowen Island from Vancouver this summer–and you should–you’ll want to know about the half-price tapas hour at Artisan Eats, a fun new restaurant at Artisan Square, just a short walk up the hill from Snug Cove.
Between 5 and 6 p.m. on Friday and Saturday nights, all the delicious small [...]
Please tell me I am not alone in this: I really do look forward to spending time with my mom–just not too much time.
In our particular mother-daughter dynamic, quality time definitely trumps quantity time. A Mother’s Day brunch, for example, is much too brief, but a week-long Alaska cruise–well, that just might be asking for [...]
Surrounded on three sides by ocean and spattered like a Jackson Pollock painting with crystalline lakes and historic rivers, Canada’s magnificent landscape is perhaps best viewed from its myriad waterways. Sure, you could take in the iconic wilderness scenery on a luxury cruise through British Columbia’s Inside Passage. But if you’re pressed for time or [...]
It’s spring break in BC’s Lower Mainland and that pretty much guarantees a gloomy weather forecast. (Old joke: how do you know what the weather’s doing in Vancouver? Easy: if you can’t see the mountains it means it’s raining and if you can see the mountains, it means it’s going to rain.)
You can’t let the [...]
So I got this note from Pam Mandel, a Seattle travel writer, via Twitter last night:
nerdseyeview @julieoc richmond is the kinda town you want a local to drag you around. it’s not easy to know what to do/where to go, but it could be fun.
And she’s right of course. It’s easy to forget that Richmond, [...]
It’s January in Vancouver and the only thing emptier than your wallet is your social calendar?
Quick fix: Dine Out Vancouver, Tourism Vancouver’s annual winter gift to the locals for being nice to out-of-towners the rest of the year.
This is a sweet deal, my friends: between Jan. 14 and Feb. 1, you can treat yourself to [...]
