Thursday 24th September We made the most of the free breakfast and filled up again! We then went and caught the Seabus over to North Vancouver to meet Jane (family friend). The Seabus is a catamaran that takes about 8mins to reach North Vancouver and leaves as regularly as every 10mins, as frequent as buses!! A lot of people seem to use it and it was a good journey as you got to see more ships and snazzy boats – including the boat owned by the partner of Bill...

We began the day by indulging in our free breakfast – bagels, cereal, toast, muffins, juice etc, yum! We then went for a mooch in town. Was weird exploring a city again – our instinct was to find a Tim Hortons but this wasn’t easy! We mooched through the main shopping area, Robson Street before making our way to the harbour where we sat and watched seaplanes taking off and landing for a while. Everywhere was very clean – as Canada is and Vancouver grew o...

Caught the bus at 9.45am. The bus driver was the one who brought us from Banff to Lake Louise and he remembered us! The journey was about 12 hours including the time difference. It went quite fast and was very empty compared to the others we had been on. The scenary was much better than previously, we drove through mountainous areas most of the way. Made a nice change from Manitoba and Sastatchewan and we both liked how natural it was. There were rivers flowing d...