Over the past seven weeks we have done so many Ho Ho buses we decided not to do Vancouver.
Probably a bad move we will never know. Another nice day so we decided to walk to the other side of the area and go to Granville Island a little island a few hundred meter from land. The concierge gave us a suggested walk, " much more interesting than walking straight down Hornby St which is boring" Off we went and initially we liked his suggestion until we reached Granville Street which was utterly filthy, smelt of urine and there were a lot of homeless people about. Not a good advertisement for the City. We walked on through Yaletown a nice village of preserved homes and many cute restaurants until we reached the harbour at a place called False Creek. Caught a lovely little ferry to Granville Island only 15 minutes or so. It. Is a lovely island full of shops, art galleries, food court and a very nice farmers market. Strolled around and came across the cement silos that had been painted into very interesting men as you can see from the pics. The artists are twin brothers who are renowned worldwide for the type of paintings they do. The cement silos and gaily painted concrete mixers are still in use.
After a lovely lunch we caught the ferry back to the Hornby St stop and walked back to our hotel named Hotel Le Soleil, through a lovely avenue of trees that were delightful with many changing colours and far from boring.
Later on we met Emma, a former work colleague of Gloria's, her husband Simon and their son Brendan for a very expensive meal in a very large busy restaurant on the top of a building (thus the expense I think) and then home for our last sleep in Canada.
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| Looking back to Vancouver from ferry (good reflections) |
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| Two bridges |
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| Painted silos |
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| Painted concrete mixers |
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| Hornby Street |
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| Emma, Brendan, Gloria |
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| Changing trees in the Fall |
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