Day 37 Tues-Vancouver highlights!

Today we are to meet up with Steve Faulkner a friend from Bilo he used to work with John at Anglo…but mainly got to know him and Rhonda through Mark and Sue Boon…
So we are Brekky here then off we set to have a coffee in Stanley Park the big main park…John missed the planned road in and we nearly ended up going across the Loins Gate big bridge…fortunately there was a last minute road into the park…downside was we missed the planned coffee shop…found 2 more but neither were opened…strange at this hour if the day it was 10am….
So after a quick view of the Lions Gate bridge from a look out near the last coffee shop we headed into the city to find a park and meet Steve…

We found a Starbucks to have a coffee awful but drinkable…Steve met us we chatted for about 30 mins then he hired an Evo car there are hundreds around the city just sitting there waiting for someone to hire them…an app that lets you hire them like a GRAB car at home…It was a Hybrid car so quite and very smooth…I sat in the back very comfortable that’s for sure…
He took us to a Bay first up for lunch at Arms Reach Bistro…. very relaxing overlooking the bay with a small marina at Deep Cove…

From here to Coal Harbour for a quick look where the ferry’s come in….it as mainly lots of eateries and shops we sadly didn’t have time to look through it all….
Then a drive over the Lions Gate bridge back towards the city a drive down th street where the homeless are literally living in tents along the street….filth and rubbish everywhere…very, very sad that they have to live this way…some choose to, some don’t choose…people completely out to it in the street earlier when we went to see Steve, on guy so wrapped in a sheet he actually looked dead…. He was there when we cam back over 3/4 hr later….from here to drive by Canada Place… and the Harbour where all the sea planes take off in front…looked amazing…seeing them coming and going was so interesting….

Steve dropped us at another spot making it easy to go back and look into the sights around the harbour more in-depth…but the rain was about to come so we had to move to see it all.,,We had thanked Steve so much for showing us his sights that he loves of Vancouver….nothing like seeing things from a locals persecutive…even though he is only working here for a stint he has done a few times now….so he knows plenty of sights….

Then around the corner from that was another creative sculpture and a display of Hydrogen Cell Cars, Electric Push Bikes, and Electric Motor Bikes…

Across the road was the most amazing display of big shiny Flower’s all over the front of the building and entrance….. looked great as I love bling things…so like a bee to a honey pot I was drawn to this shinny display…

Next was another crazy weird tall flowers things set up among , a display of big white tables, and chairs looked liked. It was set up for a dinner party of a out door bar…but was actually only a display…not sure what it was for certainly looked very out there…

The rain was about to start so we were rushing back…when I noticed an amazing Art Deco front on a building I was busy taking pics when a lovely young lady walked up to me and told me to go in and have a look…wow oh wow it was truly stunning inside it with such beautiful Art Deco designs…just as I was about to go taking pics of the elevator…an older lovely gentleman said he worked here so come to the 2nd floor so I could see he detail in the decorated roof and the beautiful stained glass window at the end…Really, really well worth finding this one…

By now we had to hightail it back to the car as it was raining…the long trip back to the unit….it was around peak hour but somehow it went fairly smoothly…compared to this morning we nearly got wiped out…

Tim and Jess arrived…they were both sore and sorry from there massive hike up the over 600m high mountain yesterday….a hike like we did on Ayer’s Rock…with chains etc…so very, very difficult…..

We still managed go to a Ramen Restaurant which was small but good service great tasty meal….

Day done. Our last night of sharing on this trip…they go their own way now as do we…Læs mere