By: I’ve Bean Travelling June 21, 2022June 21, 2022 CanadaBritish Columbia, Canada, cities, nature, North America, parks, Travel, Vancouver10 Comments

Capilano Suspension Bridge Park in North Vancouver

We took things relatively easy on our final day in British Columbia, back in Vancouver after a couple days in Tofino. Off to North Vancouver After grabbing a coffee at Caffe Artigiano, we walked over to Canada Place to catch the shuttle bus up to North Vancouver. The city of North Van is located on…

By: I’ve Bean Travelling June 20, 2022June 21, 2022 CanadaBritish Columbia, Canada, nature, North America, Tofino, tours, Travel, Vancouver Island, wildlife13 Comments

Whale watching and hiking in Tofino, Vancouver Island

We planned a full itinerary of activities for our final day in Tofino, starting with a whale watching tour in the morning. There are several available wildlife watching tours in town, but we opted to go with our hotel’s Adventure Centre for the convenience. Spotting whales Following a quick breakfast for me and a Gatorade…

By: I’ve Bean Travelling June 20, 2022 Canadabeach, British Columbia, Canada, food, nature, North America, Tofino, Travel, Vancouver15 Comments

Seaplanes and Long Beach in Tofino, Vancouver Island

After a couple days on the mainland, we went on to my most anticipated excursion of our trip in British Columbia. Throughout my years living in BC, I had not had the opportunity to visit the west coast of Vancouver Island, so this was finally my chance. Flying on the seaplane Tofino is a small…

By: I’ve Bean Travelling June 19, 2022June 20, 2022 CanadaBritish Columbia, Canada, cities, culture, North America, parks, restaurants, Travel, Vancouver14 Comments

Downtown Vancouver in a day: Granville Island, Gastown, West End

Following our return from Squamish, our second day in British Columbia was spent exploring around downtown Vancouver. We were still slightly jet lagged, so awoke in the early hours around 6:30 am. We were staying at Paradox Hotel (the rebranded Trump Tower) which is a few minutes from Vancouver Harbour, so that is where we…

By: I’ve Bean Travelling June 18, 2022June 18, 2022 CanadaBritish Columbia, Canada, hiking, Horseshoe Bay, nature, North America, parks, roadtrip, Shannon Falls, Squamish, Travel, Vancouver26 Comments

Day trip to Squamish from Vancouver, British Columbia

Welcome to the first post of my upcoming series about our recent trip to British Columbia. Arriving in Vancouver We travelled to Vancouver via Air Transat, a five hour flight from Toronto. If you’re from the area, you have probably been following the news lately about the gong show that is Toronto Pearson International Airport.…

By: I’ve Bean Travelling June 17, 2022June 17, 2022 CanadaBritish Columbia, Canada, cities, nature, North America, Tofino, tours, Travel, Vancouver19 Comments

A week around Vancouver & Tofino, British Columbia

I’m finally back with some new travel material for this blog. This past week, Mr. Chuckles and I embarked on our highly anticipated trip to British Columbia, Canada – our first long distance travel since 2019. Usually, I like to publish daily trip diaries while travelling, but I decided to switch things up this time…

By: I’ve Bean Travelling April 19, 2022April 20, 2022 CanadaBritish Columbia, food, hiking, history, nature, North America, parks, restaurants, Travel, Vancouver, Vancouver Island33 Comments

10 things to do in and around Vancouver, British Columbia

I‘m in full-on planning mode for our upcoming trip to Vancouver — our first long distance travel since the pandemic started. I lived in Vancouver for several years, but Mr. Chuckles has never been out to western Canada, so I will be serving as the ex-local travel guide for this trip. Being the planner that…

By: I’ve Bean Travelling March 30, 2022March 30, 2022 TravelBritish Columbia, Caribbean, England, history, Iceland, London, nature, Travel, Travel Thoughts, Vancouver51 Comments

Travel plans for 2022

Hello, folks! It sure has been awhile since I’ve updated this blog, but things are looking brighter for 2022 in terms of travel. Since our last international trip to Cambodia and Vietnam shortly before the pandemic, we have not ventured outside of the province, let alone the country. We went on one short trip to…

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