It has been another beautiful sunny day but it is very deceiving. As soon as we went outside we found it was really cold, mainly because of a light wind. We walked into the main shopping area & down to the historic Market Square before walking up to the Craigdarroch Castle. It is a beautiful home built in 1890 for Robert Dunsmuir and his family. He was an extremely wealthy British coal baron who passed away before the house was completed. His wife Joan & ...

Today was sunny with an almost clear blue sky. On the way out of the hotel we stopped at the Festival of Trees. There were more than 20 trees all decorated by different organisations. They looked great! Some of the trees were in the conservatory & it was very warm in there. But, when we went outside it was cold, particularly in the shade. We went across to the Visitor Centre & booked tickets on a bus to take us to Butchart Gardens tomorrow night for the ...

We got a cab to the Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal arriving just before 10am for the 11am ferry. There were only a handful of people waiting to get on when we got there but by the time we boarded, there were hundreds of people. It is a car ferry so it was a big boat. It has the capacity for 1672 people & there were 7 decks in all. There were 4 cafes/eateries & 1 gift shop on board. We spent the first half of the trip inside & the second half outside. The t...

We woke up to rain today & it hasn't really stopped all day. We wanted to use the second day of our hop on hop off bus ticket today. The last bus driver we had told us the first bus would get to the Colosseum (the library) in the street behind us at 9.23am. We got there before 9.20am but after 15mins no bus had come. We were heading for Gastown & knew it wasn't far away so we decided to walk there. The rain wasn't heavy but it was the fine constant rain t...

We decided to go to the Capilano Suspension Bridge & Grouse Mountain today. We had seen a tour that took in both but we also knew we could do it by ourselves. We checked with our concierge who advised us to walk up to the Hyatt and get on the free shuttle to Capilano Bridge. From there we could catch a public bus to Grouse Mountain. We made it to the Hyatt in time to get on the 9.05am bus. We were at Capilano before 9.30am. There weren't a lot of people there...