Canada

Vancouver, the Non-Hockey Edition

OG

06 Jun 2011 • 2 min read

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 is a bit misleading because it's more of a man-made peninsula wedged under a highway bridge. But there was a children's festival going on so we saw lots of colorful characters:

Any way you can get your kids to eat veggies...

All year round there are also lots of little artisan shops and markets on the island. My favourites were the glassblower:

This is not a job for clumsy people, i.e. me.

And out pops a beautiful Christmas bauble.

Crimp off the edges and it's almost done

and the donut shop:

Where are the holes?? Maybe these will become English muffins?

In the afternoon we took a trip on one of the itty-bitty ferry boats that run across False Creek. They can fit about 16 people (with dogs) and are probably the fastest way to get from one side of the river to the next.