Good morning from Vancouver yesterday we did an easier than expected border crossing from
Seattle to Vancouver and today we don't really have much of a plan other than going out and
seeing what Vancouver is all about we're usually planned but today there's really not much
I know that I want to get some coffee we definitely need to get some breakfast and I think the
first stop is Granville Island other than that we know everyone recommends to bike around
Stanley Park so 'as we get to Stanley Park I feel like the only sign I see is no cyclist
no cyclists no cyclists so I have no idea where we're meant to go' but that's all we
really know yeah it's really cool it's so beautiful to be here such a nice city really
is though it's one of the most beautiful cities like the placement with the mountains around
is incredible brings her to Tears
literally right next to it is all of these snow-capped mountains it's just so unique
but I need coffee it's 9am and we haven't had one yet
We think the easiest/funnest way to get to the Granville island is to take one of the
water taxis so we've just whipped around the science center and we think we're at the dock
to get them, really could be wrong also we don't have any cash so if it requires cash
we can't do it this is us that's where we're trying to go I think so the aqua bus from
the village dock which is where we are to Granville Island which is where we want to
go is $7.25 per person one way so I think we're walking it's a nice day why not take
advantage of the nice day I think we save our money and hire a bike later at Stanley
Park we just saw one of the cute little aqua buses pull in and I wish we had the money
to do it it looks so cute and so fun but we have a budget to stick to and our accommodation
has already taken Hefty chunk of that budget, onwards
must be where the 2010 Olympic and paralympic Winter Games Olympic Village was and when
they rebuilt that the whole neighborhood just came back to life so how cool all the Olympic
people would have been here.
oh they all spin
I thought they were just angled at each other weird they spin.
Turns out this walk is a bit longer than we anticipated it is so much longer than we thought
it was going to be honestly there's like people flying past on bikes and power walking and
running past us this path goes forever we are here, Granville Islands there we're about
halfway actually that's pretty good further than I thought we're only a 14 minute walk
away now I'm so excited I'm hungry now so coffee and maybe a pastry or something for
breakfast or food team for breakfast poutine is good anytime it's potatoes
we've just seen a map and apparently there is this Trans Canada Trail but literally you
could walk or bike from one coast of Canada to the other I don't know how long that would
take but how cool is that I wish we were that fit and healthy doesn't that seem insane Canada
is not small when you're going all the way east to west and also up north if you're so
inclined I don't understand how a park like a trail can continue that long yeah you can
link it all together I have to search on YouTube to see if anyone's done it but it's got a
feeling you should have done
it
so toasty warm in here
Jordan loves lemon chicken as soon as he saw it I knew there was no coming back from this
there was no convincing him that a bagel and a coffee was a better idea lemon chicken is
what he sees lemon chicken is what he wants
so Granville Market is known as one of the best markets in North America and you can
100% see why you can get everything here from like fresh produce to Coffee full meals and
it has like this cozy intimate feeling but also like there's every option Under the Sun
here and it goes on forever it's like the perfect blend between busy and like not I
don't know I really like it here it's like the perfect Market if you Google things to
do in Vancouver Canada almost the number one thing that comes up consistently is to rent
a bike and ride around Stanley Park and we have never on this world trip rented a buy
and gone cycling anywhere if we're going to do it it should be here it's going to be like
an hour walk I think to get to a place that we know of that hires a bike and to get to
Stanley Park but hopefully it's quicker than that because I'm tired and this coffee isn't
enough
When I think Vancouver and Canada I think snowing Mountains Cold hiking trails I don't
think beaches and yet there's multiple beaches around here in the city as well and they're
like nice beaches this city has everything I get the top five ranking of best city to
live in the world but you could literally be laying on the beach reading a book with
a Mountain View and a City View at the same time that's crazy snow mountains
All right we've been walking along this thing called the sea wall we sat down to have a
quick Skittles break and it turns out this is the world's longest uninterrupted something
what was it uninterrupted tell me your secrets uninterrupted water park it goes 28 kilometers
and it goes into Stanley Park so if we get the bikes along this somewhere we could just
follow this into Stanley Park
We keep putting off hiring the bikes every time we see a station of the bike higher things
we're like oh but there's one a bit further down this looks like a nice walk so unintentionally
We have basically walked the entire hour to stand the park the issue is that it's all
a nice walk it's one massive nice walk yeah we do have to just get one to the next ones
the next ones we'll see we'll get one agreed
ah we got one okay
and we're off we are riding the longest sea walk there is in the world so much fun already
I'm really tired we've only been going for like a minute
there's a lot of one-way tracks here and some that just kind of aren't signed at all so
I think we were going the wrong way or on the wrong path or something so we've turned
around and we're trying to Loop the other way around Stanley Park
we did not know the bike trails went through the forest as well this is awesome navigating
is tough I thought this whole walk that we've been doing around Vancouver there have been
so many signs telling you where cyclists should go and where Walkers should go and then as
soon as we get to Stanley Park I feel like the only sign I see is no cyclists no cyclists
no cyclists so I have no idea where we're meant to go
we have been for a minute and rode like what two k's we rode quite a long distance but
we had to keep going back and forth because we got confused by the signs I think we picked
them up at a bad spot like if you pick them up here it's very clear the signs everywhere
that's where a bike goes this is where a car goes but where we picked the bottles like
you can't go that way we can't go that way either yeah don't even think about going that
way I think most people will say that this is really well signed we just got pretty unlucky
it did look like there was a construction issue like it didn't it looked like it was
a temporary block thing yeah maybe we could go for a little bit of a walk because the
views of the city here are insane Google says it's like number one thing to do I agree if
you come here get a bike ride around Stanley Park
Stanley Park and in the middle of the lake we've just noticed that there is a petrol
station but it must be for boats because it's literally in the middle of the lake but the
sign for it is huge the views from this side of the city somehow are completely different
to the other side I think it's because you don't have the mountains in the background
on this side I really like it though oh it's a fly near your face
we have just seen the famous totem poles at Stanley Park and they are so intricately detailed
and like the stories behind all of them they each have a little plaque describing the story
behind it and what each bit is it's just so interesting to hear all of that like folklore
and doesn't it
Stanley Park is so much fun I can't believe that this is so close to the city and everyone
gets to enjoy this all the time fun fact is that it's actually larger than Central Park
I think that's so cool fun effect every single squirrel I can't say that word very well we're
all yeah all of them that are here come from eight pairs that were given to the party from
New York in a year that was a while ago I think like 100 years I'm gonna say an early
1900 something you're not very good at fun facts, still fun
it's just crazy to me that you're like so close
to the city and you have this so much here I love it
first impressions of Canada are amazing I absolutely love it here the people in ice
the city is really cool there's nature everywhere walking paths everywhere I'm just enjoying
it a lot we have been walking for like hours and hours today and it doesn't feel like it
it feels like it's been such a good fun day but we've probably already done 20,000 steps
yeah it's as soon as you start to get tired there's a new view and you just forget that
you're tired and it's an amazing view again yeah and we got so lucky with the weather
today it's like bright blue skies but a little bit brisk it doesn't get better than this
perfect perfect
we've made it to Gastown and we made it just in time to miss one of the steam clocks going
off little two things so we've had to wait around for an entire half hour to watch it
go off again
This is the world's first ever steam clock and it works by like some weight gets lifted
and then a ball drops and it lets off all the steam how cool is that this town seems
like such a unique neighborhood as well it's very eclectic and like there's heaps of bars
and restaurants I'm hungry again so I think maybe a slice of pizza would be yummy yeah
yes we are having pizza two days in a row are you traveling you just want something
you know is going to be good
When we first heard about this place we thought that this town would have something to do
with like gas like gasoline like production or something to do with it but that's not
the case turns out it's called gas town because an early settler back in the day asked some
Carpenters to build him a saloon in exchange for unlimited whiskey in one sitting and they
did it that guy was called gassy Jack and it became Gastown he's not a very good dude
though his statue got pulled down and I think rightfully so, sorry there is one more thing
to do before we call it a day we made it back to the hostel it is now 6 p.m we left for
this room at 8:30 in the morning it has been a huge amazing day we have walked 25 000 steps
plus we biked for an hour and I'm pretty sure I have huge blisters which is going to be
great for tomorrow
they hurt so bad still worth it for that day in Vancouver such a squirrel squirrel it's
really not that hard squirrel squirrel Squidward
coyotes in the area as a squirrel I can take a squirrel you found my flabergast button
and you pushed it