Once again, another gorgeous day and our last day in Vancouver. And again, breakfast up at Cloud 9. After breakfast we did the task of packing our bags again before checking out early at 9:30am. We stored our bags at the hotel while we ventured out for the day. From our hotel on Robson Street we walked up as far as Granville Street where we found the Pacific Centre mall. We thought this would be a lot bigger and the shops were mainly high end fashion boutiqu...

Once again, another gorgeous day and our last day in Vancouver. And again, breakfast up at Cloud 9. After breakfast we did the task of packing our bags again before checking out early at 9:30am. We stored our bags at the hotel while we ventured out for the day. From our hotel on Robson Street we walked up as far as Granville Street where we found the Pacific Centre mall. We thought this would be a lot bigger and the shops were mainly high end fashion boutiqu...

Today we woke to sunny skies and had breakfast again up on the 42nd floor of our hotel - Cloud 9! We decided to hire bikes and go around Stanley Park at our leisure. So off we walked down to the waterfront and hired bikes. At the place where we hired the bikes, they were all given names - mine was called "Lorna" and was a 7-speed cruiser. Grant had a mountain bike (Saturn) as didn't want a 'chick bike' like a Cruiser! He would later in the day come to regr...

Today we were meeting up with my friend Liz, who I meet 29 years ago on my Contiki Trip in the UK. Her and her husband picked us up at our hotel at 10:30am. She just looked the same to me and it was great to finally meet her husband after all these years. They took us to Granville Island first. Here there were public markets, which sold everything from fruit and meat to candles and soap! There seemed to be everything! Plus it was crowded as anything and I fou...

Today was our last day in Toronto and we really only had the morning left to explore, so we decided to visit the Toronto Aquarium. We got there before it opened, so to beat the crowds. Here we saw some amazing fish, sharks, stingrays etc. I even got the chance to touch a hardback crab! We couldn't get over the different species of sharks and one particularly took our fancy - it looked like it had a chainsaw on the end of it's mouth! Naturally we found 'Nemo' an...