Vancouver

Arriving in Vancouver, Canada, late Thursday night I took my most expensive Uber of my trip on a 20 minute drive to Kitsilano to stay with my friend Ronnie and his lovely girlfriend Antonia. They had a spare bedroom for me in the super cute four level home in a very lovely part of Vancouver.

We went for a walk along Wreck Beach for some drumming and stunning sunset. I discovered a baby seal that I hope was only temporarily abandoned by its mother. I got to play a little Capoeira after more than 20 years, and it was embarrassing doing cartwheels in the sand. Our Evo mysteriously vanished and took a while to track down and how it was moved remains a mystery.

We had a trip by metro and sea bus to the North Shore with Ronnie's visiting family.

Vancouver held its week-long Festival of Lights while I was there, with a fireworks company from Portugal starting the event off with some amazing skyrockets.

We had a day trip to Chilliwack for some more White Water Rafting and I had a really nice gluten free burger at White Spot, a British Colombia chain of restaurants.

I discovered a lovely gluten free bakery not far from Antonia's home that did everything from chicken pot pie to cake pops to paninis to cinnamon buns. Apparently on the weekend they make a great croissant tooRead more