Van City

The New Home of Mats Sundin is a beautiful place. Instead of being used to snow as most Torontonians are with our fleet of snow plows, Vancouver is instead used to a constant torrent of rain, which i enjoyed during my brief 30 hours there. However, when it snows, as it did during the Canada-wide snow storm mid-December, they are incapable of dealing with the result. Many of the side-streets were still backlogged and full of snow.

As my flight to HK is beginning to board, i'll be brief.

Beautiful downtown, Gastown is a sick area for people my/our age (for those who are Torontonians, it's like moving the Distillery district into downtown, expanding it, and putting in more cool shops and restaurants). Hastings, only one block from the Gastown neighbourhood, is everything it's cracked (pun intended) up to be, and Stanley Park, which is an unbelievably short walk from downtown, is a beautiful place, with old growth forests keeping the city well-oxygenated. Lots of Japanese restaurants, and not of the western-type sushi-focused variety. There's an abundance of Izakaya-type restos. Ate at one for lunch (Ezogiku), and ate well. I'd like to go back in the summer.

Quick track to enjoy, for anybody who's going anywhere. Some Hip Hop to keep you bouncin.
Izza Kizza - Back to Miami
http://www.limelinx.com/files/03df05817f1ad8a5db1849284de34998

Next post will be from the other side of the world, likely in 2 days.

PEACE

Ps, somebody has a sense of humour:
For those who aren't uber-esoteric, "chill, winston" was a pretty amusing line from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.