An Afternoon In Yaletown & Granville Island
On Friday after watching the horrendous England Vs Algeria World Cup game we drove down to the US border so that Lou could leave Canada and then re-enter (to renew her work permit). The border is only about 50 minutes away but going on a Friday afternoon meant we had to queue for over an hour to get through. We didn't stay on American soil for long. We literally drove in, went in the US Border office to get a form (to prove that we'd physically left Canada) and then drove back out, known as "flagpolling". I found the Americans to be super paranoid and abrupt with us but I guess they have to be super security conscious so I shouldn't be too critical. We'd have probably gone to an American town had it been earlier in the day and not on a Friday, we'll probably look at doing this soon now we know how easy it is.
On Saturday the weather was great so we decided to check out Yaletown as we'd never been in that area of Downtown Vancouver before. We made a bad decision of eating and drinking before we went so when we arrived there wasn't actually much for us to do! As nice as it is, it basically seems like a commercialized residential area with plenty of coffee shops, pubs, restaurants and not a great deal else. It was cool to see it nonetheless and definitely a place we've earmarked for a night out in the future. We had to laugh whilst we were there because we found the stereotypes of people in that area to be totally true. It has a reputation for being a yuppy area and there was definitely no short of people that matched that criteria. There's basically 4 main types of people there - regular people, the early 30's ladies walking their fancy dogs (prominent), the mid to late 40's blokes in their sports cars trying to draw attention from said ladies (common), and fitness people (cyclists / rollerbladers).
After a walk around Yaletown we hopped on an Aquabus (a water taxi) to Granville Island. I managed to get a good spot to take some photos and I enjoyed the cool sea breeze because it was a real scorcher. It only takes about 10 minutes but it's a nice trip and it has a quaint feel to it and it's definitely better than taking a bus, the SkyTrain or driving over there on a weekend. We had a quick look around and then went for a few drinks from the pub part of the Granville Island Brewery (like we've done twice previously!). We stayed for a few hours, had a look around the market and then got on the Aquabus early evening and then caught the SkyTrain home.


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