Second Vancouver story

My 16-page piece on Vancouver (that is not a typo, it was a bloody long story that took forever to co-ordinate and even longer to back-and-forth) is published in the new issue of  Urbis Magazine (click here to read).

First Vancouver cab off the rank

My first story from last month's Adventure World media famil to Canada and the US is one of two stories I have in this week's NZ Woman's Weekly (click here to read).

    
(pic credit: Tourism Vancouver) 

Vancouver the Beautiful

Note: post contains the words 'stunning', 'civilised' and 'outrageously attractive' far too many times.

But we are here and it is stunning and civilised and, frankly, a big fat show-off. But Vancouver is such an over-achiever in the visual stakes, it is perfectly entitled to be a little bit too far up its own bottom.

We have eaten and drunk and walked and caught buses and ferries. And we had an upgrade at the excellent Fairmont Waterfront Hotel.

Bonus: for a city reported to have around 175 days of rain a year, it has been gloriously sunny and warm (25 degrees today). We are in heaven.

Some quick pics from our full first day. It doesn't get much more sublime, civilised and outrageously attractive than this.

Currently girding my loins

For the one hour flight to Auckland, and then the 13 hour slog to Vancouver.

Will miss this little chap so much but looking forward to a fun time and our amazeballs Adventure World Western Explorer Rocky Mountaineer trip (and lots of great things I can write about for the many, many stories I need to file on my return).

See you on the other side....