Wednesday 2nd July Vancouver to Kelowna We were to leave at 8.30am this morning but the Hotels lifts broke down and the luggage had to be manually carried down six flights of stairs. It was the bell boys' first day of work, I think it will be his last. We were held up over an hour because bags were missing. Our morning tea stop was a town called Hope. We were lucky enough there was a free BBQ in the Hope Memorial park and we all had a free tasting. Hope ...

Tuesday 1st July Vancouver It's Canada Day!!!! Red everywhere. We had a Vancouver City Tour with our tour group. As we were driving to Stanley Park we stopped at the nine totem poles at Brockton Point. Then we passed a life size bronze statue of a woman in a wetsuit, with flippers on her feet and her mask pushed up on her forehead sitting on a large granite boulder on the North Shore of the Park. In 1968 Douglas Brown, a Vancouver lawyer commissioned ...

Monday 30th June Vancouver We had a free day today, up early and we walked to the ferry to visit Granville Island Markets. Granville Island is a peninsula and shopping district and is located across False Creek under the south end of the Granville Street Bridge. The peninsula was once an industrial manufacturing area, but today it has large public market, an extensive marina, a boutique hotel, the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Arts Umbrella, Fals...

Sunday 29th June Vancouver We disembarked the MS Statendam at Canada Place Vancouver at 8.30am this morning and caught a shuttle bus transfer to Vancouver Sandman Hotel Downtown Vancouver City Centre. Our room wasn't ready so we stored our bags at the hotel. We walked to the free shuttle stop and made our way to the Capilano Suspension bridge. It is a simple suspension bridge crossing the Capilano River in North Vancouver. The bridge is 140 metres lon...

Saturday 28th June Scenic Cruising the Inside Passage The Inside Passage is one of the most scenic sea lanes in the world. The scenery was unbelievable, with lush green forests turquoise glaciers. Today the weather was overcast and very windy on deck. We spent most of the day inside relaxing on the leather couches and enjoying the view away from the cold wind and rain. We arranged to have dinner with Tony, Lee, Bob Linda and Cody in the formal dining ...