It tasted as good as its looked So it has been a while since my last entry. One comment made has stated that I used too many personal pro nouns and I should be more descriptive about the sights and sounds I see. In my defence, creative writing has not been a strong point of mine; my college English teachers will tell you that too. So from this point onwards, I will be more descriptive in my blog. This coffee house specialises in organic coffee and report...

Yesterday I went up to Stanley Park to visit the Vancouver aquarium. During the walk through the park I spotted a squirral just roaming round a park bench. It was a nice photo opportunity . The aquarium is big and filled with lots of different marine life. I caught feeding demonstrations of fish from the Georgia Strait, sea otters and dolphins. They have even got a couple of Beluga whales too. The aquarium also hosts the only 4D theatre in Western Canada. Jellyfi...

The sun arrived. It had been constantly raining here in Vancouver since I arrived on Tuesday, but today the sun came out in the afternoon. Decided to make the most of it and visited the Dr Sun Yat-Sen chinese gardens. It is a 1/3 acre in size. It was modelled on the designs of private scholar's gardens during the Ming dynasty in the Suzhou province. Everything was built over in China, then broken down, sent to Vancouver and rebuilt. It has been open since 1986.I...

Two Breakfasts, Two lunches and one dinner in one day. I have been up since 3am New Zealand time to travel to Sydney at 6.40am. After saying farewell to my parents at the airport and proceeded through customs, the plane was slightly delayed due to some maintenance fault. The plane managed to leave alright and got to Sydney on schedule. The only eventful thing about the journey was that the flight attendents were very nice. After arriving in Sydney and killi...