Ok, so I haven’t actually done a free walking tour with Vancouver’s Tour Guys, but I’m recommending their services just on principle: the world’s on our doorstep for the Olympics, the highways and byways are a teeny bit crowded, and the least stressful way to explore the city right now is on foot.
If you haven’t done [...]
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 [...]
Since “where can we get a great view of Vancouver?” seems to be a frequent question from the international journalists in town for the upcoming 2010 Winter Games, I did a round-up of my Top 10 places to scope the city over at the Inside Vancouver blog.
Feel free to add your own recommendations!
I keep running into people who say they don’t really care about Vancouver’s upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics because they “don’t like sports.” Well, okay, then: how about arts?
From January 22 to March 21, it’s going to be a feeding frenzy for culture vultures in BC’s Lower Mainland thanks to the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad.
(And yes, it [...]
Someone over at Heritage House Publishing deserves a bonus for releasing John Lee’s Walking Vancouver: 36 strolls to dynamic neighborhoods, hip hangouts, and spectacular waterfronts just as the city-by-the-sea prepares for the Olympics and its worst case of gridlock since the invention of the automobile.
Local boy Lee is an internationally published travel writer hailing from the UK. He [...]
I’m heading up to Whistler, BC for Cornucopia this weekend. There was a (very recent) time when that drive from Vancouver was so long and hair-raising–all those white-knuckle twists and turns–that it was necessary to take a break halfway just to gather your wits.
Now with all the pre-Olympic improvements to Highway 99 you get to Whistler [...]
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 [...]
Here at TheseBoots we appreciate the wandering spirit, so we’d like to introduce you to a couple of young Canadian university students who have found a way to have their travel cake and eat it too.
These kids don’t exactly blend:
Michael Beaty is a six-foot-tall redhead currently on exchange from the University of British Columbia in [...]
This week’s news that Disney will launch a seven-day family-friendly Alaska cruise from Vancouver in 2011 reminded me that I’ve been wanting to mention something about another lesser-known BC cruise port: Prince Rupert in Northern BC.
When I was in Rupert a year or so ago on my way to Haida Gwaii for the opening of the [...]
I’ve been working in and around Canada’s tourism sector for about 20 years, and I know from first-hand experience that the times, they are a-changin’…
I won’t presume to speak for the industry, but for those of us who made a pretty nice living writing about travel it’s all different now.
Two years ago, I sold dozens [...]
