DAY 4 IN VANCOUVER: STROLLING THROUGH THE CITY AND ITS TEMPTATIONS !

On this last day here in Canada we decided to stroll through the most interesting part of the city centre.  The weather was fantastic - not a single cloud on the sky. 

 Our first target was the airport right in the middle of town. Vancouver South Airport - as it is called. It is a very busy airport. It is very special in the sense that all flights are Catalinas - they take off from and and land on water. They are the city's connection to Vancouver Island, to towns in the neighbourhood and to places in the surrounding mountains. Very efficient - but rather noisy.

 Next to the airport you have Vancouver's very modern and very functional cruise ship terminal. Today two big ships were guests here. The biggest one, Norwegian Jewel, was this evening off to Hawaii - on its way to Sydney.  We could in principle have used that one too.  But when we heard that the ships "godmother" in 2005 was Melania Trump, we were happy that we do not use that possibility :-)

 Our following adventure today was a visit in the Vancouver Lookout.  The 168 m tower, from where you can see the whole city - and even Mount Baker with its snow on the US side of the border.  The tower was opened 40 years ago by the first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong. What he said here, we do not know. But on the moon in 1969 he said the famous words, when he put his feet on the surface: This is a small step for man. But it is a huge step for mankind!

 After all these "serious" efforts to "do the city" it was time for a well-deserved drink in a local pub called "6 Acres" in Gastown. And whom did we meet there?   A nice young waiter, who spoke Danish. Why? Because she had ( or has ?) a boyfriend in Silkeborg in Denmark! Small world once again. How did she find out that we were Danes?  The accent, when we spoke "Canadian", she said.    You can't hide anywhere anymore :-)

 And when we later had our dinner in a fantastic restaurant in the harbour our lady waiter was ...   no, not Danish, but Swedish/Polish.  So all these nice and interesting people make us very much feel at home here.  We even met Belgian waffles today - without buying any, though.

 Bye, bye Canada.  Tomorrow morning very early it is off to "Trump-land"!




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