Yesterday provided highlights from Iceland to Montreal, including our experience of the total eclipse of the sun on the Azamara Journey.  Today, will feature our stops in Montreal and Vancouver.  Tomorrow, Part 3, will be our ten days on the Silverseas Silver Whisper.  If you missed them, here are the full Montreal and Vancouver postings, in chronological order: WE ARE IN MONTREAL ALL ABOUT MONTREAL AMERICA'S BEST COLLEGES, 2026-2027 and NCAA FOOTBA... TOUR OF MONTREAL MY BEST DINNER IN MONTREAL MY LIFE: Part 3h--Incredible Journeys during Reti... . WE ARE IN VANCOUVER....Again Here is a professional travelogue of Montreal by fox Tours and Travel.  Our highlights: On Day 1 in Montreal, I mostly paid tribute to Dolly Parton: Goodbye Dolly . A Look Back at Her Extraordinary Life. All about Montreal. The city is an island, 30 miles long and 10 miles wide, connected by 20 bridges. Is 315 miles east northeast of Toronto, 122 miles west of the national capital, Ottawa, an...

Yesterday was our only day to tour Vancouver.  Why?  It was sunny, with rain scheduled to come last night, and continue into the weekend.  We return to Honolulu on Sunday. The only economically sensible way to see Vancouver is utilizing the  Big Red Bus , where you pay around $70 per person for two days, and hop on and off at 14 different stops.  A bus comes every 15 minutes.  Stop #2 is located across the street from our hotel. Here is another itinerary map with different stop numbers.  Now I know why they don't mention numbers at their stops or show numbers at each stop....because there must be more than one system. I'll begin the tour from Stanley Park, for it seems like the introduction of Vancouver begins from this leg. There could be two versions of some legs because we took the full 1.5 hour trip twice.  I sat on one side of the bus one way, on the other for part of the second, then moved to the front for most of this second time, so you wi...