Posted in Vancouver on Aug 13th, 2007 No Comments »
Guess what came in the mail today! Yes, it’s our subscriber package for the 2007/2008 Vancouver Symphony Orchestra season. We are going to the VSO Pops series of 6 concerts as well as the Colin James concert, for the very reasonable price of $280 total. We went to one of their concerts a couple of [...]
Posted in City of Edinburgh, Vancouver on Aug 10th, 2007 No Comments »
With no car or bike in Edinburgh, we walked absolutely everywhere. We lived quite centrally so we walked everywhere in our neighbourhood, of course, but we also walked across town. An hour to the movie theatre at Ocean Terminal? No problem. 7 miles to Asda (Walmart)? Of course. We did sometimes take the bus, at [...]
Posted in Vancouver on Aug 9th, 2007 No Comments »
Oh how I missed the great eating in Vancouver! The food in Scotland was pretty terrible, with a few exceptions (the Wagamama chain in Glasgow and most Indian food places in Edinburgh were great) and we did have some awesome food elsewhere during our travels (particularly el Bulli in Spain) … but most of the [...]