Arrived back in Vancouver to torrential rain, tahnkfully we took all the photos before we left. Had a drive around Stanley park. Friday we went to vancouver acquarium, where we saw some lots of tropical fish that Craig had swam with in the maldives. Also lots of scary creatures from the depths of the amazon. Lots of colouful coral and star fish. The highlight was seeing the beluga whales, these bizarre white whales were very friendly and inquisitive. They kept po...

On wednesday we caught the seabus across to North Vancouver to go up Grouse Mountain. We went up most of the way on a cable car which took about 15 swaying minutes to get there. Once there we had unobstructed views as far as the eye could see back across vancouver, out to vancouver island (as far as the washington state US border) and snow capped mountains in the opposire direction. We strolled around taking in huge lungs fulls of mountain crisp air ( you could a...

Arrived in Vancouver very early tuesday morning about 4am local time. The plane had been delayed an hour and it was full of toddlers screaming for much of the 6 hour flight. Arrived at the lovely Barclay Hotel (it comes highly recommended by errr no one!! ala scarborough 70's guest house styleee!!) Got woken up by workmen outside the window at about 7.30 am need I carry on... We went up the Skytower first to get great views across the city and more impressively...