 | WALKED EVERYWHERE
2009-07-29, Vancouver, Canada. By: moreysci | | Late entry: Grand hotel with class and service. Great marinas with many expensive motor boats and yachts for sale. Used the float plane for a view of the area and the buses for a circumnavigation of... |
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 | Vancouver
2009-05-21, Vancouver, Canada. By: nunns | | Vancouver for 3 nights then. Hotel turns out to be in good position and we venture off to Canada Wharf. Lots and lots of construction nearing completion as Vancouver gets ready for the task of hosting... |
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 | OK, so I changed my user name...
2008-08-15, Vancouver, Canada. By: isachel | | Hi Everyone,
I have changed my user name because apparently "ikea" was being mistaken as spam. So this is where I will post all of my stories and pictures in Sweden. Hopefully this works better!
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| Ready to go soon!
2008-08-15, Vancouver, Canada. By: ikea | | This is really a test run to see who gets these emails...if I have your email address and it will change soon, please let me know so I can update it.
Thanks!
(I really don't have anything else i... |
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| Big City Living
2008-06-16, Vancouver, Canada. By: acp | | Beautiful and diverse but quite honestly, Whistler better be good otherwise I'm finding somewhere else to go for awhile. Vancouver is just too big for my liking. Big city....not me. Give me a shack... |
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 | Last Day
2008-04-05, Vancouver, Canada. By: Marcus | | well, this is the last full day i'll be spending in Canada, dear reader(s). tomorrow i'll be taking flight to Tokyo and thence to Melbourne (in a plane, i hasten to point out. i haven't spontaniously ... |
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 | Museums, some are good but others are not.
2008-03-21, Vancouver, Canada. By: ronnieed | | Morning number two also started with the free breakfast on offer in the hostel (muffins, toast, juice and coffee). We also had a repeat of the odd noise during the night. This time Mr Allnutt was more... |
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 | Vancouver Vancouver, this is it.
2008-03-20, Vancouver, Canada. By: ronnieed | | Day 1 in Canada. After a relatively good night’s sleep we cashed in on the free breakfast and headed off in to the city. For those of you interested in our sleeping patterns, we were briefly interrupt... |
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 | Planes, planes and more frickin planes!
2008-03-19, Vancouver, Canada. By: ronnieed | | On march the 19th of this year Ronnie and Ed returned to London Heathrow to clear off to Canada. It was the start of a 6 week whirlwind tour and excitement levels were naturally high.
Flights are b... |
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| not much is happening.
2008-03-13, Vancouver, Canada. By: Marcus | | well, it's been a few days since my last journal entry. the reason for this is simply that very little of interest has been happening. most of the first day here was spent unconscious (jet lag. i'm st... |
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| Rage at the airline.
2008-03-11, Vancouver, Canada. By: Marcus | | the day started off so promisingly. i arose at a late hour, having had a very enjoyable conversation into the wee hours of the evening the night before, and wandered into the nearby Asakusa to get som... |
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 | New Home - Vancouver
2007-11-06, Vancouver, Canada. By: erry | | Today is the 4th month I am working in Vancouver, Canada.
Lot of stories prior to this journal has not been written. I probably going to write it in the next couple of weeks or so...
Thanks God th... |
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 | End of conference and home
2007-07-28, Vancouver, Canada. By: Lisa | | Hi everyone,
I’m writing this in San Francisco airport ready to board a plane to…NZ!!!!!!! Gosh, it does one good to see ‘Auckland’ as the destination in lights on the wee board in front of the ga... |
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 | neuroethology congress in Canada
2007-07-28, Vancouver, Canada. By: vmmv66 | | Hi
Vancouver wow
it's big big big city I was so use to be in Dunedin that I forgot what is a big city. The grestest stuff about Vancouver is bikes and biking trails even if I didn't manage to bike... |
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 | Neuro stuff
2007-07-25, Vancouver, Canada. By: Lisa | | Hi everyone!
Well, it's the third day of the neuro conference, and I've finally got email working on my computer :). Edith and I had a really good trip from Toulouse via Frankfurt, and arrived her... |
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 | feeling a little numb......
2007-06-10, Vancouver, Canada. By: chloedunn | |
Morning, just testing out this journal thing, fretting and pacing back and forth rying to decide want needs doing. Will write more when I am either on route or settled in Cape Town!
Chloe
xoxoxo... |
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 | Waiting in YVR
2007-05-19, Vancouver, Canada. By: jax2asia | | It's 12:40 am and after arriving over an hour ago, we discovered our flight to Hong Kong is an hour delayed. Now scheduled to depart at 3:55 am! What worries me is the fact that we only have two hour... |
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 | Vancouver? Not really...
2003-02-20, Vancouver, Canada. By: Orion777 | | I know I should have visited Vancouver... However, when I went there, it was my first year in Canada, and I was living in Toronto... another big city. I didn't know, I couldn't know that I would be ba... |
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| xmas in Vancouver
2005-12-25, Vancouver, Canada. By: diogenes | | Spending xmas with Helen and her family in Vancouver. It is cold and rainy. Vancouver is a nice city. That is all I can say really. Helen's family is nice too. shudder. |
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| Stanley Park, Vancouver
2006-12-11, Vancouver, Canada. By: hiena12 | | Went to Stanley Park today, and it was raining! walked through town didnt take long, bout half hour, really nice park, probably alot better in the summer when it is not raining! went to the aquarium, ... |
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| Doing jack all!
2006-12-07, Vancouver, Canada. By: hiena12 | | well today me and andy got up really late! we just cruisily got ready, had free pancakes for breakfast! there edible with maple syrup and thats bout it! but there free so its all good! its warmer toda... |
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 | Kelowna and - 15
2006-11-27, Vancouver, Canada. By: oxley007 | | Hello.
it is cold!! it -15 degrees and frezzing.! apparently in vancouver it is the biggest snow storm they have seen in 5 years. and kelowna is packed with snow every where which usualyy doesnt ha... |
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| Free time to piss around
2006-11-27, Vancouver, Canada. By: oxley007 | | Hello,
i have free internet for the next 15min so i thougth i would say some more stuff.
Sara says, "Its fuckn snowing".. followed by her laugh.
cant wait to get set up in big white. really w... |
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| Snowy Vancouver
2006-11-27, Vancouver, Canada. By: oxley007 | | Hello all.
i am now successfully at the samesun hostel in vancouver. It was a crazy experience. Customs was easy. really quiet. I had a 'Plane mum" that helped me out on th plane, she was really ni... |
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 | a weeeks update in a couple of paragraphs!!!!!!
2006-09-28, vancouver, Canada. By: littledawg | | Hi kids just a quck update on whats been happening the last few days. sorry i aint been online to do the updates but ive been busy. lets start at friday past. woke up early for my last day in vernon... |
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 | At Grandma's
2006-07-19, Vancouver, Canada. By: aloden | | So, I'm at my grandma's house in North Vancouver. Taking the bus down to Seattle tonight; gonna sleep in the airport tonight and then catch a flight down to Mexico City tomorrow morning. That's wher... |
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 | Pink luggage, not curtains luggage.
2005-01-01, Vancouver, Canada. By: sarahmcg | | I haven't left for Austria yet, but preparations have started! I bought some pink luggage, cause I have to be stylin, and not wearing curtains when I reach the home country of the Von Trapps.....anywa... |
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| the big journey!
2005-08-03, Vancouver, Canada. By: roblina | | we were driven to vancouver airport by Marlena's mum, and after a few teary moments we sat and watched Top Gun and news stories about a plane crash. decided top gun is DEFINITELY a homosexual film, an... |
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 | Flying
2005-06-19, Vancouver, Canada. By: bloowaves | | Have I ever mentioned how much I love flying? How weird is that? All that radiation that will propel me into the world on cancer..hahah..yep, in case you haven't heard, they say that radiation is as... |
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 | Taking off
2005-01-18, Vancouver, Canada. By: megancknox | | This is the most unreal experience I’ve ever had. Whatever I said about this being a floating campus rather than a cruise ship was completely false. The ship is so nice. Marble bathrooms, crystal chan... |
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 | The countdown begins...
2005-01-12, Vancouver, Canada. By: tcassie | | With 2.5 weeks to go before we are unemployed again things are getting exciting here! For those not in the know, Clare has taken things to a whole new level and broken yet another bone. This time it... |
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 | Snowboards and Beer
2004-11-13, Vancouver, Canada. By: robert | | Going bloody great. We headed across a bridge yesterday and bought a whole lot of snowboarding gear. $700 board for $350. good bindings, good boots, and all the other stuff. We spent a lot of mone... |
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 | We made it!
2004-11-11, Vancouver, Canada. By: robert | | Well it was one of those days that I will look back on and think was cool but I never want to do that again. So much waiting. So little sleep. Too much Tim.
Flight to Tahiti was ok. we had th... |
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 | A long walk
2004-10-31, Vancouver, Canada. By: NicP | | Really lovely sunny crisp autumn day (I s'pose we should say fall now) Decided to walk in Stanley Park - had to delete a load of the pics before we got back as the camera was totally overloaded. We we... |
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| Home for a day!
2004-08-09, Vancouver, Canada. By: jandp | | Yesterday after camping on Vancouver island, I came home to Vancouver for the day. It was great to see Megan and Farion and the cats. Tomorrow I leave for Saltspring Island. |
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| flights are booked
2004-07-21, Vancouver, Canada. By: erikd | | Well, it's now official, flights are booked and we are leaving on Sept. 10, 2004. Our first stop will be Tahiti( French polynesia ), will be there for 2 weeks and spending most of our time in Moorea. ... |
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 | There and Back Again
2004-02-10, Vancouver, Canada. By: gareth | | Here we are, back in Vancouver where our journey started. Back sitting at the much more reasonably priced internet in the Global Village Backpackers. We've been round the province and across the borde... |
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| Lets Not Talk About It
2003-11-15, Vancouver, Canada. By: gareth | | Its probably best if we do what the Americans did and just remove everything black from our lives. Clothes, walls etc...
We watched the game in a bar and the atmosphere was great (despite the game ... |
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 | You Won't Believe It
2003-11-13, Vancouver, Canada. By: gareth | | A word about food and beer. Pizza can be found for $1 a slice. And its good pizza. Big slices, like the ones at Pizza planet in the Imax food court.
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 | ...and Lucky Charms for Breakfast
2003-11-14, Vancouver, Canada. By: gareth | | Got up late. One free beer last night turned into quite a few not so free ones. Didn't spend too much though, don't worry about us. Had Lucky Charms for breakfast. Marshmellow in the morning. Yum.
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| STA Trekking
2003-11-13, Vancouver, Canada. By: gareth | | Sleep is good.
Afer getting up not too late we walked to the orientation. This was good. The usual, go here, see this, don't go here, sign this etc... Re-met the guy we met in NZ that's doing Engin... |
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 | Starting Out...
2002-10-19, Vancouver, Canada. By: subdude | | Vancouver, Canada, October 19, 2002
Well the time has come to lace up my boots and hit
the open road. After spending two wonderful, sun-filled
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 | We haven't left yet!
2002-09-05, Vancouver, Canada. By: roadshow | | So, if you're reading this message, you've jumped the gun on checking out our web site. We're still getting ready here, but excited about leaving in a couple of days (Depart Sunday Sept. 8th - Arrive... |
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 | I want to go back :(
2002-07-09, Vancouver, Canada. By: etienne | | (Etienne) Well, been home for 6 days or so and its been pretty good here. We miss the places we have travelled to and cant wait to go back one day,
but work and life take priority right? :) Overall... |
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| Were freakin out!!
2002-06-07, Vancouver, Canada. By: etienne | | Ok, our flight is tomorrow and
most of our stuff is packed, today
is the longest day ever!
Both of us are @work, the minutes
feel like hours, hours feel like days...
Next time we update will ... |
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 | Home
2002-01-19, Vancouver, Canada. By: betty_mike | | Well we made it home safe and sound. We have been back for over a week now ... it's been extreamly busy and very tough to get over our jet-lag and colds. Our last entry was from Surat Thani on our w... |
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