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Seagulls on the Seawall
If you enjoy parks, trees, outdoor recreation and the like then Stanley Park is probably one of the places in Vancouver you visit if you're a tourist, or frequent if you're a local. The seagulls here are spending their rainy Sunday morning sitting on the Stanley Park Seawall, which is a 20+km path along Vancouver's waterfront from the Convention Centre on Burrard Inlet (Coal Harbour), around Stanley Park past the Lions Gate Bridge, and into the English Bay Promenade. Bring your walking shoes, a bicycle or rollerblades and a picnic lunch to experience the purest form of nature in the middle of the city.
Map sourced from Vancouver Entertainment
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March 7th, 2010 - 10:47
Ah yes, Stanley Park… I spent 2 weeks in Vancouver in Jan 06, but unfortunately it was on business, so I only had the weekends to explore. I walked all around the Downtown & West End area, plus further eastwards (that distinctive building on the waterfront that looks like a cross between a sailing ship and the Syndey Opera House – what’s that called? I can’t remember), spent quite a bit of time in chinatown (it was chinese new year) and in a particular bar (it was superbowl weekend too) but never made it to Stanley Park unfortunately.
In fact there was way more that I wanted to do there than I could possibly fit in the short time available, of course… but my most enduring memories of the place were chilling out in a cafe on the corner of West Hastings and Richards (it had free wifi – that was a novelty back then!), and being able to sit in the office in Burnaby and look out over the flat city to the snowy mountains. I don’t think there’s ANY city in the UK where you can do that!
In fact, wow, thinking about back then, I’ve just looked up some of these places on streetview… it’s strange, panning around places I vaguely remember, and the pieces beginning to slot back together… ah, the internet – whatever did we all do before we had it?
March 7th, 2010 - 12:11
It is hard to imagine life without the internet… sometimes a simple life is better, but everything has its pros and cons
The distinctive building you recall is called Canada Place. Conventions are often held there, and it’s where you go to see the large cruise ships dock and set sail alongside.
I can imagine that weekends weren’t enough time to explore this city, but it sounds like you got a lot of sightseeing done just by foot! There’s never want of things to do even when you live here fulltime. It is lovely scenery here that’s for sure, but seeing some of your pictures of Moscow, that also looks like a beautiful place to spend some time as well (even if it’s a bit of pollution combined with a setting sun that makes for vividly-coloured photographs…!)