I loved Granville Island as well-- I got to go to Vancouver twice last year (1wk April, then 2wks July), and on the whole I liked it. I liked Granville Island a lot--everything about it. If you're walking around, near the docks area, but still connected to the rest of the stores/buildings, and about 100 feet down and across from this huge lobster/fishing business, at the end of the complex, is a small business called R.S. Yachts. You can walk in there, tell them "Hi. I know Sara Weir. She loves her boat and it's doing splendidly in San Francisco, but she's bloody stupid so she keeps hitting her head on the dodger." There might be an old guy with a (you guessed it!) British accent. ^O^
I'm not sure if you caught this though... I was saying that Granville Island was the set of John Doe, not Firefly. Still, you should go there. The restaurant/pub I mentioned, Bridges, is this big yellow building on one end of the island, near the market.
One weird thing (to me at least) that I noticed about Vancouverites: they don't notice rain. When I went there in April, it rained all day and night, stopping often but never for more than half an hour at a time. And the locals-- they just walked around, either uncaring or simply oblivious, with no 'brellas and often not even hoods or hats. I (the California girl) had this great desire to run around handing out umbrellas and beggin them to step inside somewhere. ::shrug:: Twas a bit of culture shock, cause we get rain in San Jose maybe five times a year, in sets of two-four days each.
Still.... Canadians have Death By Chocolate.
Which I really REALLY would rather have than Starbucks.
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Re: But of course darlin
Date: 2002-09-21 08:32 pm (UTC)I'm not sure if you caught this though... I was saying that Granville Island was the set of John Doe, not Firefly. Still, you should go there. The restaurant/pub I mentioned, Bridges, is this big yellow building on one end of the island, near the market.
One weird thing (to me at least) that I noticed about Vancouverites: they don't notice rain. When I went there in April, it rained all day and night, stopping often but never for more than half an hour at a time. And the locals-- they just walked around, either uncaring or simply oblivious, with no 'brellas and often not even hoods or hats. I (the California girl) had this great desire to run around handing out umbrellas and beggin them to step inside somewhere. ::shrug:: Twas a bit of culture shock, cause we get rain in San Jose maybe five times a year, in sets of two-four days each.
Still.... Canadians have Death By Chocolate.
Which I really REALLY would rather have than Starbucks.