Vancouver is a gorgeous city, too clean and pretty to spend too much time in shops but it’s good to know the shopping experience,when needed, is a joy. To start with even their money is special. I’m not sure if the shiny silver and transparent section come through on this photo but trust me it’s there. The [...]
There have been a plethora of new coffee shops that have sprung up in Vancouver since last year’s visit, or some of them were just hidden from view. Despite being of the new-fangled (slightly irritating) type, the first thing that strikes me is that in most of them, I can still get good old-fashioned ‘brewed’ coffee, [...]
Once again, I stayed in the Century Plaza hotel in Vancouver. Why? Because it’s perfect and there is no reason to change. The welcome is as lovely as always and the receptionist offers us a key to the swimming pool room. Either this is new or I don’t recall it as I don’t swim but it [...]
“There are two things Vancouver is good at; coffee and breakfast”. Jessica Callaghan, Century Plaza Hotel Well that explains it then! Two of my favourite things is what makes my favourite city great! North America is not known for its great food and 6 months in [...]
So 54 weeks after the last trip, I am back in glorious Vancouver, this time with the beloved, on his first visit to Canada. The West End, also home to the delightfully colourful and gay (really) Davie Village is our ‘hood, AKA where the glorious Century Plaza is. More about that wondrous, long-standing independent hotel later, [...]
I love the idea of reading this book when I see it in Vancouver but somehow what should have been a nippy, one-week witty read turned into a three week test. Anyhow, it’s probably just as I had a lot on my mind during the three weeks leading up to the largest event I have organised [...]
Wow that holiday went by faster than a Toronto Maple Leafs’ hockey player hitting the puck across the ice. (I don’t know the Montreal team’s name) You can’t imagine how nervous I am on the flight over. Not that I have developed a fear of flying, although it is my first flight in six months, [...]
The countdown to Montreal is well on its way; I’m going next Tuesday on Air Canada and no doubt will be trying to recall my schoolgirl French on route. The two months since the boyfriend came over to the UK have sure gone quicker than the 5 months we had apart before then. This is [...]
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