Re: The Well episode VI: for English, press 1, pour le service en francais, appuyez 2
What's Vancouver like? Post some pics too.
Imagine tall mountains covered in towering cedar trees descending into a calm ocean bay on one end of a peninsula. Now imagine the boggy delta of a big river on the other side of that peninsula. Now imagine that someone covered that peninsula in high rise apartment towers, sea and rail terminals, boutique clothing stores, and about 250 Starbucks franchises. That's Vancouver.
It's beautiful and ugly at the same time, sometimes in the same block. It's a cultural melting pot, exhibiting the benefits and drawbacks thereof on every street corner. Sometimes it looks like London, sometimes it looks like New York, sometimes it looks like Los Angeles, sometimes it looks like Hong Kong, but most of the time it looks like nothing else on Earth (except maybe Seattle).
I live on the West side of Vancouver about 2 km East of the UBC campus at the tip of the peninsula, where my wife attends class (when she feels so inclined). It's a great compromise between urbane and peaceful. I am about 14 blocks from the ocean. Jericho Beach is the nearest beach park to me, though I prefer Locarno Beach and Spanish Banks further West along the coast.
Here are some pics that my wife and I have taken:
This is a view from Jericho Beach across the bay to downtown. It was taken in December of last year.
Here's the Kid's Market at Granville Island from the same time. That's the Granville Street Bridge running over it.
I'll see if I can dig up more later.
