CAPILANO SUSPENSION BRIDGE PARK

WHAT: 

A park with rainforest trees turned in to a tourist attraction by putting up a big suspension bridge over a canyon and some smaller bridges between the treetops.

ON THE SPANISH BANKS

DAY 22

SPANISH BANKS

Vancouver seems to be neverending with beaches, just as the time we spend on them. I got my first real sunburn for the trip today. It'll be perfect for the crayfish party season in Sweden that is very much in full swing when we return.

It is the last whole day in Vancouver and although both me and Julia misses our boys like crazy, it feels sad to leave the rest of the family. They are a bunch of globetrotting, funloving, (extremely) goodlooking people that I spend way too little time with because of the globetrotting, but I still love them for it.
They're constant traveling just too stay in touch with each other - we have relatives on dad's side in Germany, UK, Sweden and Candada, with inlaws adding Israel, Pakistan, Denmark and Russia to the list.
It's suddenly clear why I feel this aching hole in my chest whenever I'm not on the road...

GASTOWN, VANCOUVER

DAY 16

A trip back in time?

THE WORLD'S SMALLEST WORLD

Once upon a time a young man travelled to Canada to visit his mother. This was way before internet, way before dubstep killed the clubs - even before yours truly was born. And back then, times were simpler. People didn't need big advanced technology to keep themselves entertained. And the young man, back in the 70's, visited the tiniest, smallest things of them all and were very happy with his day.
Twenty years, three kids and one divorce later the man wasn't so young anymore. His kids has grown to be adults themselves and were always desperate to be entertained (aren't all of us 90-00's kids?). So the man brought them on a trip back in time, to a place that, despite its name, grown bigger in the last decades:

MINIATURE WORLD 

GRANVILLE ISLAND

DAY THREE 

Last day in Vancouver, the first turn, we checked out Granville Island with all of it's markets. We met the cousins and aunts by the Water Park and then continued on to the Public Market, where we got some food. I'll let the picture speak for themselves.

STANLEY PARK-ING

DAY TWO
Apparently, you can't visit too many parks...

With little to none say in schedule-making, I nicely followed where my parents led me. And actually, quite glad I did. Stanley Park was next park in what seems to be the eternal amount of parks in this city, and what waited us outside the car when we finally found a parking lot was quite amazing.
On one side, we had the bay with the impressing silhouette of gas town. On the other, we had totem poles making an outdoors gallery for everyone to enjoy.

QUEEN ELIZABETH PARK

DAY ONE

The weather was bright, the sky was clear, the family behaved... 

After sleeping from 9 o'clock in the evening, the jetlaged forced us to wake up by 5 in the morning. Nethertheless, we were eager to see some Canada and asked our hosts where to go. Just down the block, or sort of, there was a park, they said and gave us directions.