by I seem to have a lot of fun for a place where Canada’s “No Fun City” was once called “No Fun City”. Although it has often been advertised as the “most worth living in the world” in recent decades, an abundance of party poping regulations, including restrictive alcohol laws and early closing times, led to the death of Vancouvers music, art and night life scenes.
I can only say that a lot can change in 15 years. During my three-night stay, I saw incredible wild animals, flew over the city center, bought in like a superstar and ate and drank some of the coolest bars and restaurants in North America.
And while Trump’s comments about Canada to the 51st state of the United States led to the fact that its residents pursued an “elbow -up” approach for his expansionist rhetoric (in order to borrow a sentence from the National Sport Ice Hockey, it also changed the cities and encouraged them to welcome visitors (at least those who do not plan the country).
I saw evidence of this warm hug as soon as I checked in. In front of my hotel in the city-the centrally located Fairmont Waterfront-Saß, a bronze traffic police officer with a smiling and smiling, Rühmischer Harley-Davidson. When I willingly poses him for tourists’ selfies, I asked if we could change the places, and he undertook without hesitation.
That could have been a real bonhomy with free rooms, or it could only be part of a police magic offensive that launched seven games in the city in the city during the FIFA World Cup next year. In any case, there was positive first impressions and some pretty fine snapshots for my Instagram feed.
The two-wheel entertainment continued with a bicycle trip through Vancouvers extensive network of cycle paths (5,000 km in the subway). Mariel, my friendly leader of Cycle City Tours, led me through Stanley Park, the “green heart” of the city. It is over 1,000 hectares of a sea wall that is the longest and picturesque, uninterrupted, uninterrupted bank of the world at 28 km.
Since the days of Vancouvers ‘No Fun’ Ruf – Hubert Kang, has changed a lot – Hubert Kang
On weekends, the park attracts outdoor-loving locals who bring their own cosmopolitan taste with food, music and fun. More than 40 percent of the population in Vancouver are immigrants, and their cultures are in the catering of the city (button Vancouver offers migratory tours), festivals (Vancouver Folk Music Festival) and its 22 different neighborhoods.
For those who prefer two legs two wheels, the Fairmont Waterfront offers twice a week (and even paddleboarding) groups. However you move, but navigating is simple (it is mostly flat and designed on a grid system), so I searched for the places to dispel his “no fun” label.
Like most visitors, I first drove to Gastown, a rustic historical district next to the second largest Chinatown in North America. Here I followed a group of Perma-Tanned tourists from Florida and pointed their iPads to the Whistling Steam Clock and the architecture in the Victorian style. Many of them mixed their skiers in Gastown’s ubiquitous souvenir shops and adopted looks of outrage with embarrassment in the Red Maga style for sale, which are not decorated with “Make America Go Away” and “Canada for sale”.
Gastown is a picturesque historical district near Vancouvers Chinatown
When I left her back, I caught one of the Dinky small water ball from False Creek ferry to Granville Island. This entertainment and shopping area on the water with its funky theaters, art galleries and the committed children’s market is popular with the young families of Vancouver and is a joy to motivate yourself.
In congruent between lobster huts and cowboy boat shops, I encountered Sea Vancouver-der me a 90-minute tour in one of her open-air zodiacs. They also delivered; I discovered a few port seals that swapped around our boat before we even turned on the engines.
Nature is interwoven in Vancouver in urban life and it seems that they are never more than 30 minutes away from a hiking trail or a ski slope, such as the Grouse Mountain. I took the free shuttle that gathered passengers from large inner city hotels (including the Fairmont) and initiates them at the Capilano Suspension Bridge. Here, in a moderate rainforest on the northern outskirts of the city, I crossed the Capilano river on a 70-meter high, 137 meter long foot bridges, which is the oldest attraction of Vancouver and delivers fun and fear in the same quantities.
The Capilano suspension bridge is a funny and anxious inducing, 70 meters high and 137 meters long
In the port of Vancouver there are huge cruise ships that arrive and depart after the neighboring Alaska, not the only traffic on this shimmering admission of the Salish Sea. Vehmerplanes also take off constantly and land against an idyllic background of skyscrapers and mountains. When I climbed to Vancouver Island for the 35-minute flight to Vancouver in the front seat of a harbor air DHC 3 “Otter”, I felt like Indiana Jones-Obvoom after all the Tim Hortons I had with Porco Rosso, probably more like Porco Rosso, which I had spotted with a marked, Canadian center, and McDonalds McDonalds (you also answered in the UK) in the UK-Assemes).
At the southern tip of the island, Victoria (the capital British Columbia), felt as English as it sounds: Tunbridge Wells, which were transplanted to the Pacific Ocean – with the highest dead recommendation in the world. I made my way to Fan Tan Alley, who announces the closest commercial street in North America, for local indie clothing, handicrafts and household shops with more unique, hippy chic atmosphere.
Back on the mainland, Kitsilano-Füno years in a row from Lonely Planet, Vancouvers Beste’s best district in follow-up with Michelin-worthy street food (for evidence, try the Thai in Maenam) and upscale retailers. All supporters of Lululemon’s popular leggings should note that the Athleisure brand comes from the kits of kits (as the hip home relates to it) and here in their shop at West 4th Avenue cheaper.
Lonely Planet chose Trendy Kitsilano Vancouver’s best quarter for five years in a row
Mount Pleasant in the east of the city has been a gourmet destination since 2022, as two of its restaurants published on Main and Burdock & Co, in Vancouver’s first Michelin guidelines for stars. However, I strolled a few blocks in the west until June, an incredibly cool restaurant and a cocktail bar in the village of Cambie, also a renowned foodie center.
The same team as Chinatown’s Keefer bar-one of the best nightlocks in Vancouver for many years-in June serves the west coastal kitchen for a customer that was so painful in trend and beautiful that I was feeling that I hiked on the set of a fashion boar.
DJs in restaurants are not for the taste of everyone, but June has limited the louder sounds at least in a late night bar on the ground floor, while they concentrated on the perfection of parts such as their French-inspired signature court, pasta for Rachel (named after the wife of the chef), which has become viral in Vancouver’s Didel Circles.
Russell Higham enjoys Vancouver’s breathtaking sights over the bike
I listened to the local musician Neal Ryan (the Dublin, not a “funny city”, for Vancouver) about drinks in the ARC bar of the Fairmont Waterfront, which – Party -Pooper Damn – is there until late on most weekends Live entertainment and was today.
When I found one of the most lively and exciting cities in North America, I ordered another night sac: her bee cocktail, which was made from honey from beehive on the hotel’s roof kitchen garden. Of course I could have been going to bed early, but where is the fun in it?
Essentials
Air Canada flies from London Heathrow Direct Direct after Vancouver from £ 512.
The Fairmont Waterfront has rooms from £ 359, only space.
For more information, see DestinationVancouver.com
