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A night on the Drive 29 Jun 2013 | 07:43 am
Ever follow your intuition and feel like the universe rewards you with a great big “YES“? One of the first places I saw listed on Craigslist, I had an instant “that’s the one” reaction to. Cutting a ...
A day at the (dragon boat) races 28 Jun 2013 | 05:22 am
Confession: I’d never heard of dragon boats before moving to Vancouver. But when I heard there was a dragon boat festival, the name alone had me sold, and I marked it straight down in my diary. Good ...
Spaghetti squash 27 Jun 2013 | 07:21 am
Oh man, you have no idea how excited we were to spot spaghetti squash in a grocery shop on Commercial Drive! For anyone wondering where the paleo posts have gone, one way or another, something I’ve do...
Gastown, solstice, and Make Music Vancouver 27 Jun 2013 | 05:20 am
Ever have one of those evenings that should have been perfect, but somehow takes a turn for the weird? That was pretty much this year’s summer solstice for me… I mean, the ingredients were all there!...
Car-free day on Commercial Drive 25 Jun 2013 | 02:56 am
Sunday 16 July was Car-Free Day, where various areas around the city closed to traffic in favour of one almighty street party. And, oh look at that! Even though there were several venues to choose fro...
Stanley Park sea wall walk 20 Jun 2013 | 03:37 am
This is probably one of those outings where I should shush and let the pictures – many, many pictures – do the talking! From the Commercial Drive farmer’s market we took the SkyTrain into town, and di...
Greenway walk to Commercial Drive farmer’s market 20 Jun 2013 | 02:08 am
While we’re trying to avoid any notable shopping excursions until we’re more permanently settled somewhere, every Saturday there’s a farmer’s market near Commercial Drive, that we fancied checking out...
As much Main Street as we could take! 18 Jun 2013 | 07:26 am
Next on the exploratory tour of potentially nice Vancouver neighbourhoods to live in was Main Street. Word of warning, you have to walk through kind of a skeezy area from the SkyTrain to reach Main St...
Italian Day on the Drive 15 Jun 2013 | 04:05 am
It was all looking a bit surly overhead when we left our flat in the general direction of Commercial Drive. So much so, we actually decided to take a detour via a hiking shop to see about getting me –...
Downtown Bhangra with a Kitsilano detour 14 Jun 2013 | 08:04 am
After a morning of parks and a riverside beach, we caught the SkyTrain to Downtown, where a Bhangra festival was being held outside the Art Gallery. Except, coming out from the station, I realised I’d...
