Hello everyone! After the dark musings tangled within the previous entry, it is time to return once more to happier subject matter. Granted a stay of execution allowing me to remain in my basement hovel for the coming month and for an encouragingly low price, February dawned full of renewed hope and vigour. The unseasonally warm weather persisted, driving away the lingering clouds of doubt casting shadows across my mind, frequently invoking surprised smiles of...

Hello everyone! After the particular joys of this blog's past handful of entries, caught up reminiscing over my special adventure to the winter wonderland of Alberta for Christmas, it is time to return to Vancouver, to move forward into January - always my least liked of the calendar months - and to face the darkest days in my Canadian expedition thus-far, a shadow rivalled only in that cast by the spectre of Salmonella poisoning in Banos, Ecuador when regardi...

Hello everyone! Well, it has been some time indeed since last I settled down to write a few words and, quite inevitably, much has transpired during the interrim. This is, of course, to be lauded, as here in a foreign city far from home a full life rather reliably translates to an exciting life and from there it is a small hop to a good life! My concern today, in terms of catchment, is to focus upon one of my more selfish aspects for writing this blo...

Hello everyone! Today marks the outset of my fourth week here in Vancouver. So far I have derived much enjoyment in both reacquainting myself with familiar areas of the city known to me from my initial family visit three years ago and exploring pastures new, particularly those comprising the landmass to the south and west of the downtown promontory, predominantly the neighbourhood known as Kitsilano. Hereonin, the tough gets going: I am due to commence my ...

Hello everyone! Today marks the culmination of my first two weeks here in Vancouver and after a few halcyon days reacquainting myself with this wonderful city, I have set myself to the grinding, currently thankless slog of job- and house-searching. I type house-searching, but what I really mean by that is simply room-searching: I am far from wealthy enough to purchase an entire house. Besides seeking to avoid living beyond my means at all costs, all I actually...