Day 3 - Vancouver, British Columbia,Canada
Day 3 – 11th June 2005 -8:00 GMT
Headed downtown to an area called Gastown, The first thing you see is the famous steam clock and just around the corner is a statue of Gassy Jack, Gassy Jack was an English adventurer from Hull who landed his boat here around 1880 and built a house and formed Gastown, his house was burnt down in 1886 in the great fire of Vancouver and he was killed. Then I headed into Chinatown and visited Dr Sun Yat’s Chinese Garden. On leaving the gardens I saw part of the local field hockey game and then we headed through Chinatown to science world where we caught an aquabus to Granville Island, The Aquabus driver gave the passengers water bombs and told us to attack the pirates ? 10 minutes later all was revealed as we approached Granville Island there weere pirate boats everywhere all equipped with water canons and water bombs, after a few hits with water bombs we docked at Granville Island. We walked around Granville Island which is full of market stalls and then settled at a restaurant on the water front, where we watched all the pirate boats whilst eating. We then walked up to Avis Car Rentals which was a couple of miles away to check our reservation for the rental car, the guy behind the counter was like the friendliest person you would ever encounter, he said I will give you a free car upgrade don’t worry I’ll get you the best vehicle we have in when you get here on Tuesday, and it will have to be the newest as you doing so many miles. He even them drove us back to the hostel, Customer services award of the year.
Got back to the hostel and Jill crashed out for the night. I heard lots of horns outside the window so looked out on a naked bike ride through downtown Vancouver, 150 or so naked cyclist thought they would go for a nice bike ride ? Reece and I then went out for a beer and pizza, the Tyson fight was just starting on TV in the bar so watched Tyson get defeated, then headed to Edgewater casino and ended up a little in profit, then crashed out for the night
Headed downtown to an area called Gastown, The first thing you see is the famous steam clock and just around the corner is a statue of Gassy Jack, Gassy Jack was an English adventurer from Hull who landed his boat here around 1880 and built a house and formed Gastown, his house was burnt down in 1886 in the great fire of Vancouver and he was killed. Then I headed into Chinatown and visited Dr Sun Yat’s Chinese Garden. On leaving the gardens I saw part of the local field hockey game and then we headed through Chinatown to science world where we caught an aquabus to Granville Island, The Aquabus driver gave the passengers water bombs and told us to attack the pirates ? 10 minutes later all was revealed as we approached Granville Island there weere pirate boats everywhere all equipped with water canons and water bombs, after a few hits with water bombs we docked at Granville Island. We walked around Granville Island which is full of market stalls and then settled at a restaurant on the water front, where we watched all the pirate boats whilst eating. We then walked up to Avis Car Rentals which was a couple of miles away to check our reservation for the rental car, the guy behind the counter was like the friendliest person you would ever encounter, he said I will give you a free car upgrade don’t worry I’ll get you the best vehicle we have in when you get here on Tuesday, and it will have to be the newest as you doing so many miles. He even them drove us back to the hostel, Customer services award of the year.
Got back to the hostel and Jill crashed out for the night. I heard lots of horns outside the window so looked out on a naked bike ride through downtown Vancouver, 150 or so naked cyclist thought they would go for a nice bike ride ? Reece and I then went out for a beer and pizza, the Tyson fight was just starting on TV in the bar so watched Tyson get defeated, then headed to Edgewater casino and ended up a little in profit, then crashed out for the night
posted by Simon at 11:38 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home