Whit's Travels: City Walks

Today Alex and I woke without much planned so as usual we got off to a bit of a slow start. We decided we needed to get to the Visitors Centre to get some info and a bus schedule. The visitors centre is about 6.5km away so we decided we'd take a bit of a stroll through the city on our way. We walked through downtown Vancouver until we reached the city, passing GM Place (the home rink of the Vancouver Canucks) and then onto the city centre. There is some serious construction going on in the city because of the Olympics. The 'Canada Line' train is being put in underground.
We figured out why its sometimes called the City of Glass, every building is basically all windows.

I think the coolest thing about Vancouver is how you can look up from the dirty urban tangle of concrete buildings, chain link fences and broken glass to see the unspoilt wild mountains rising from the rooftops. I think you can kind of see it one of the photos below.

So once we made it to the Visitors Centre and scored ourselves some extensive bus schedules that we could barely understand, we hit up the food court. A few tacos and some unimpressive Starbucks cake later we hit the streets with a plan to catch a bus back to Amelia and Jute's place. Because we couldn't figure out the busses (and Alex's personal vendetta against Canadian busses) by the time we walked to the line we thought we were going to catch we were a quarter of the way home so we figured we'd just walk all the way back again. I think walking through the city is a good way to orientate yourself, getting to know the street names and where some of the shops and other things are (especially the $1 pizza slice store) as well as saving $5 (the busses over here are a rip!).

So yeah not much to tell today apart from our epic walking... which I already mentioned. Oh yeah and we had pizza for dinner. And walked Maggie. Yeah...OH aaaannnnnddd, they don't have crinkle cut Salt and Vinegar chips over here!! They just don't exist. Unheard of even. What kind of country is this?