Week of February 22, 2016
Vancouver is the most beautiful city in Canada!
Not only has Vancouver blessed with spectacular natural beauty, it also has awesome architecture!
Its downtown was quite walkable for us as there were plenty of benches, and chairs installed on public streets for pedestrians to sit and catch their breath.
As we stayed at one of the downtown hotels, we could walk everywhere and to a lot of the attractions in the city.
Suffering from some joint pain from time to time, I was
concerned if I could enjoy walking around and taking in the scenery of this beautiful city.
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| The former Bank of Toronto building, now a Vancouver historic building |
To my amazement, the more I walked during our vacation, the better I felt and the less pain I experienced!
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| A glass domed building at West Hastings & Seymour St. |
So we just headed out of our hotel and kept walking every day while we were in Vancouver.
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| A beautiful old building at Cambie St & W. Hastings - Vancouver |
Vancouver is an absolutely beautiful city with its old and modern eclectic mix of buildings.
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An eclectic mix of old and modern buildings
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Putting on our running shoes, we set aside a day out of our western Canada holiday and took a walking tour and wandered the street of Vancouver on our own.
We started from West Georgia and headed towards Stanley Park along West Hastings.
Walking past by spacious green parks, we could not believe that we were in the middle of a Canadian winter in late February!
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| Was this really February, in the middle of a Canadian winter? Only in Vancouver! |
The tulips were out in full bloom; sidewalk cafe lounge chairs were set out for pedestrians to pause and take a break.
People were out and about relaxing and sitting on park benches enjoying the warm winter sun!
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| Cobbled stone street around W. Hastings St. |
This could only happen in Vancouver; nowhere else in Canada could we experience this kind of mild weather in late February!
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| Mosaic tiled art work at the street corner of downtown Vancouver |
We came across well maintained cobbled street and sidewalk mosaic tiled art on street corners.
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| Exterior elevators operating on a downtown building |
There have been many reports about the incredible high prices which home buyers are willing to pay for houses in Vancouver.
We learned while we were in Vancouver that the house prices of homes were not always this crazy.
In fact they were quite reasonable until the late 1980's.
In 1986 Vancouver hosted Expo' 86. and the event was very successful. The world came to visit and discovered the beauty of the city.
House prices started to go up
and the demand for homes has not slowed down for the past decade despite of numerous predictions about the pending house price bubble being burst.
As a result, there has been a building boom in the condominium market to meet the consumers' insatiable demand.
It is evident in the number of new condo buildings everywhere in Vancouver.
Downtown Vancouver is beautiful place to visit! With many interesting old and modern day buildings to explore, it can easily keep you busy for an entire day.
We were certainly glad that we took time to explore this great city on our visit this time!
R.T.
Downtown Vancouver
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