Vancouver

At last we arrived in Vancouver, and I actually began to feel I'd made the right choice. Vancouver airport is amazing, and the British airports could learn a thing or two! It's wide open, friendly and has a bunch of First Nations totem poles and art work and stuff. Apart from having to wait about an hour to get through Immigration (one guy serving a line of about 20 people at one person every 15mins!)it was all good.

At least now I'd landed, and it was all good. Taxi ride to hostel, food , bed etc!

As for Vancouver, I can't really make up my mind at the moment. It was kind of fun being there, partly for the experience of being in my first big city, with sky scrapers and everything! But a lot of the downtown area seemed pretty run down, and there was quite a bit of poverty and begging, which I guess you find in all big cities, but just seemed in your face. Even bits of the more commercial streets seemed run down, but having said all that it's not too bad for a city - better than London!

I think being jet lagged would be a good way to loose weight as we tended to sleep instead of eat for the most part!

Anyway, Vancouver was done for the time-being. Time for Whistler!