Despite having ample free time on this trip, for some reason I didn't write anything in my journal about Vancouver. So I don't have any recollection of the restaurants, except I remember generally being disappointed with them. They were all ok, but never outstanding, and most cities can usually muster up enough effort to produce a few standouts. So, while I wrote hundreds of blog entries for our one week in Venice, the week in Vancouver will occupy a tiny fraction of this blogspace.



I remember generally struggling to find things to occupy our sightseeing time. The surrounding countryside, Victoria Island, the Rockies etc. are undoubtedly beautiful, but the city itself, especially in winter, was nice but not fascinating. The photos are of downtown, which is surprisingly huge, and that white tent thing on the water is the port from which the cruises to Alaska depart.



In addition to having a booming downtown, the residential areas in central Vancouver are also surprisingly tall. It's row after row of new apartment buildings filling almost the whole peninsula. There are plenty of nice housing areas a bit further out, but we didn't have a car and they were too scattered and purely residential to make a nice walk.