As we left the hotel on Thursday morning - up, breakfasted and out before 9.00am - we discovered that some of the interesting characters from the previous night were still around - nothing threatening but Linda felt it was a little 'edgy' while I felt it was sad to see such a collection of people with little or no hope.That seems to be what you have to expect in almost any city these days particularly one with a mild temperate climate like Vancouver.
Our first stop was the Hastings Urban Farm - which we could see from our hotel window - an interesting project supported by a number of volunteers from the street community where the biggest threat to their vegetable and salad production for a number of local restaurants appeared to be the local rodents. Despite this problem, they had an impressive crop of potatoes, onions, leeks, courgettes, salad leaves and pollinator plants along with a seed bank.
After a stop at the visitor information centre and a walk around the deck of Canada Place, we decided to try out one of the Hop on/Hop off bus services. We got a great introduction to the city, had a walk on the trails in Stanley Park, visited the public market at Granville Island and finished up with a visit to the Sun Yat Sen Gardens in Chinatown before heading home for a late siesta.
We had dinner in the Pourhouse on Water St in Gastown - good food and wines but our server seemed compelled to announce himself and what he was planning to do each time he came to the table. Not a problem when he was describing the food on the plate but a little excessive when he came to fill up the water glasses or remove empty plates or bring new cutlery - if he thought he was enhancing the expected gratuity then he was probably sorely disappointed - annoying little fecker!
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