Happy Birthday Canada, today is your day! Have some maple-syrup, play some hockey and go pet a bear. We're going to Vancouver Island to celebrate and spend a few days around Victoria. Canadians don't seem to make the same kind of hoopla around their national day

Grouse Mountain - which unfortunately has nothing to do with The Famous Grouse - is one of the many mountains on Vancouver's doorstep. It's a big attraction thanks to almost year-round snow. We shared our gondola ride up with several snowboarders and a couple of enthusiastic

This past weekend we celebrated our one-year wedding anniversary with a lovely trip to Whistler. It had all the fixings needed for a romantic weekend: an alpine setting, a fireplace in the room, tasty drinks and bears. Yup, real life bears: That was not the only one either. We passed

As nice as the Canadians are, they do have the crazy hidden somewhere deep down... The Canucks just lost to the Bruins in the Stanley cup final and things are going apeshit here in the city. There's a giant pile of trash being burned downtown, a couple of

Lest you'd think that everything in Vancouver has to do with hockey, here are a few non-hockey impressions we gathered sight-seeing over the weekend. On Saturday we went to Granville Island with some friends from Caracas who are looking at moving to Vancouver. Calling the place an island

In most cities you can tell the tourists apart from the locals because they carry a camera, a map and walk slowly. In Canada there are some extra challenges to blending in. First up: shirt shopping as soon as you land is obligatory. In all fairness it's currently