After the early morning scenic drive we arrived to some beautiful sunshine in Vancouver. Driving over Lions Gate Bridge was a very inviting introduction to Vancouver, as was the lovely cooked breakfast for about £2.50 each. Finding the Car hire dropoff only involved one illegal right turn and a little swearing. Now you are waiting for the punchline, the silly thing we did. OK, to try and keep under budget for just one day we decided to walk from the car hire place to our hotel. Needless to say we took the long route, it was a very long, uphill walk, and we had all our luggage with us.Finally we stumbled in, far too early to check-in and had to drop off the luggage and kill five hours before relaxing. After a refreshing Frappachino in the sun we found our second wind. We explored the "seashore" and Granville Island. Vancouver looked awesome, with the harbour in the foreground filled with yachts, the skyscrapers behind, framed by the distant snow-capped mountains, topped off with a perfectly blue sky. Downtown is located just a few minutes from the Sea and the great walks, now that would be a nice walk home from work.
Checked out Granville Islands market, and sampled some of the lovely food and cakes there, lying in the sun. We also found time to fit in the Space Museum. Now we were very reluctant to visit any more museums but it turned out to be a great afternoon, appealing to the child in Lee very much. The displays were extremely interactive, one involving landing a space shuttle, the kids didn't get a look-in.
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