Vancouver Island is quite a large island just west of Vancouver. Our journey there involved catching a bus, ferry, train, bus, ferry, bus and finally another bus to Ben's digs, a CouchSurfing host who had kindly agreed to put us up for a few days. We arrived on Friday, 27 April and were welcomed by his housemates who we chatted with for a while before Ben got home. Monique & I popped down to the grocery store to get some things for dinner, and then the thre...

The 5 hour flight to Vancouver was pretty cool - had personal TV's and everything. The only weird thing was that there was no meal served (even though it was lunch time) and all food was really expensive. Luckily we had snacks :-) We landed in Vancouver at sunset on Monday 23 April, and soon got to experience how great a good, efficient public transport system is - we were able to get a train from the airport arrivals to the ferry terminal, a ferry accross to ...