Tag: British Columbia
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2022: A year of food highlights
Seasons greetings! As we approach the end of 2022, it’s time to look back on all that has happened in the past 365 days. This year welcomed a return to normalcy, with pandemic restrictions lifted allowing us to resume travel. Although we don’t dine out as often as we used to, we nonetheless experienced several…
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Everything we ate in Vancouver, Canada
The Michelin Guide has finally come to Canada. Shortly after 13 restaurants in Toronto were awarded with stars (yes, I have some opinions about the selections but that’s a topic for another post), the inspectors moved onto Vancouver and announced 8 restaurants as recipients this year. Although we didn’t eat at any of the now…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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, where we started our walk.…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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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