A GRAND TOUR OF VANCOUVER, CANADA

The Blue Horizon is nicely located in the middle of the the best street for restaurants in Vancouver. I went to the veranda in the morning yesterday, and was greeted by my Blue-Bar Pigeon.

We were picked up at 9:30 by a Landsea tour van. Here are a few videos of our ride through the city.

From Stanley Park towards the cruise terminal in town.

A bronze sculpture titled Girl in a Wetsuit, created by Elek Imredy in 1972 on a rock along the north side of the Stanldy Park Seawall. She is not mermaid, but is wearing a wetsuit, swim fins and has a snorkel mask on her head. Designed to show a modern, athletic and diving figure, rather than a fairy tale creature. Many are familiar with The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen, Denmark, created in 1913 by Edvrd Eriksen.

Approaching Prospect Point, a Douglas Fir almost 200 feet tall.

Path to Prospect Point.

Man walking dalmatian.

A-maze-ing laughter, patinated bronze sculpture designed by Yue Minjun in 2009 in Morton Park. Fourteen statues about ten feet tall: may this scupture inspire laughter playfullness and joy in all who experience it.

Inukshuk, by Alvin Kanak, at English Bay. Stands almost 20 feet tall. Commissioned for Expo 1986 and moved to this site.

Indigenous-led partnership project of three towers rangin from 26 to 39 storeys, to become rentals apartments on the grounds of the 2010 Olympic village. Very controversiall.

I had two lunches yesterday, We were dropped off at Granville Island just to walk around, and I saw this interesting Japanese-like restaurant which grew their own rice and brewed sake, which I had with a bowl of unagi. Absolutely delicious.

Second lunch was at Kirin Restaurant.

Many accolades.

We took a lot of this back to our hotel room and had the leftovers for dinner, while watching film IQ, with Tim Robbins, Meg Ryan and Walter Matthau, playing Albert Einstein. Enjoyed it, but Rotten Tomatoes gave it 43/48 scores.

We were here in Vancouver exatlay a year ago, following the Osaka Expo and Oceania cruise from Yokohama, and took the Hop-On-Hop-On Bus three times, so had already a good idean what this city was all about. So if you want to see more videos, click on that site.

What particularly stood out to me this time were the flowers.