So we begin our final full day in Canada by cooking our own breakfast in our suite, scrambled eggs with ham on toast. We leave the hotel at the amazingly late time of 12.00ish, to go backwards and forwards on the highly recommended SkyTrain. We spent a couple of hours going backwards and forwards (Including across the Fraser River on the bridge) on the SkyTrain before heading down Granville Street towards Granville Island, including a stop at Café Crêpe for lunch.
Granville Island itself is a curious place, hidden under the bridge and seemingly made of bars, first nations’ shops and trendy city-life type places frequented by artists sporting goatees and berets. It also has a market selling the usual market kind of stuff. However, this wasn’t our ultimate aim for Granville Island and we eventually made it to the Aquabus dock.
The Aquabus is a colourful little service which shuttles people and bicycles up and down False Creek on a variety of small boats. We catch one up to Science World from where we can catch the SlyTrain back to our hotel. This takes us past a collection of boats all decorated for the Gay Pride taking place that day.
At Science World we come across what we named the Hell-spawnéd Ball Machine, a contraption consisting of rails, bells, cymbals, things that go “clonk” and a load of balls. The entire thing serves no purpose other than to make a variety of noises, and every so often make a wobbly thing go wobble. We move off after a while and catch the SkyTrain.
For our final evening meal of the holiday we head to Rosie’s on Robson, which is attached to the hotel. This is a wannabe English pub and serves dishes such as roast beef in a Yorkshire pudding, liver and onions and fish and chips. The food was declared adequate, as were the cocktails, and we retired to our room to watch the back end of I Robot and to sleep. Tomorrow will bring us to the end of the holiday, and the end of my daily blog updates.
