Granville island and a local train ride
Trip Start
Feb 15, 2012
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Trip End
Sep 17, 2012
Where I stayed
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
We headed over to Granville Island, getting there about 930am before some places even opened but the fruit/vege/food markets were open and so therefore were the coffee shops. Found a place there that sold v good coffee and had a special today, large cup late for price of small. I am still coming to terms with the "small" cup being what I would normally call a bucket. I took the large coffee and made it half way thru before tossing it out
Granville Island is a really nice art and craft place. We saw lots of nice natural timber pieces of furniture that would have been tempting if we lived a little closer. Also some lovely leatherwork, bags etc. the most amazing thing we saw was a musical chair thing. It was like a wrap around chair with a harp built into the back. Called a sound cradle. You sat back and the music vibrations massaged you and the sound was incredible...Truly unique. Their website is www.gandharvaloka.com I have not looked there yet but I assume it will have more info there. Cost was C$5400
We then caught a water taxi and then rode the rails and got on a local suburban train. The locals could not have been more friendly, first the "transit guard" explained the ticketing and assured us it was v safe. Then we were unsure about right platform, a local young lady stopped her mobile phone conversation to help unprompted. What were the burbs like in Vancouver? Well I had a small nap but what I saw surprised a bit, they had quite a few high rise apartment blocks in the suburbs.
Back to city and shops and walk home...just in time to beat the rain
Now having a Californian Cab Sav from Liberty School. V nice. Sandy is having Canadian Peller estate Cab Merlot from same maker as her new favorite peach cider
Comments
If you think that coffee is big, never get a "venti" sized cup at Starbucks!