Vancouver Waterfront-Day 4

What a difference a day makes. We woke this morning to quite a different world- a lush green one. After three days of leafless birch trees and conifers bordering the railway line and lakes, we have arrived to woods of deciduous trees, sycamore, viburnum, leafy silver birches in their freshest green livery, with some bushes of broom, cherry and laburnum sporting blossom.

We were sad to leave the train, our home for the past four nights.
It has been a wonderful experience to travel by rail through Canada with its diverse landscape;from the icy lakes of Ontario to the prairies of Manitoba and Saskatchewan and finally through the majestic Rockies to British Columbia and our destination of Vancouver.

What a joy to be welcomed off the train by Berkeleyblipper and Oilman and chauffeured to our hotel in downtown Vancouver.

A short recovery period and we were ready to visit the Anthropological Museum on the campus of the British Columbian University and admire the Native American artefacts, including giant totem poles made from cedar trees.

Granville Island was our afternoon port of call, to sit outside in the sun in short sleeves, sipping drinks, watching the world go by and get this blip.

Now that is something we haven't done for at least a year - the short sleeves outside, I mean, not the people watching or the blipping

A walk along the waterfront and dinner beckons tonight.