Greetings from Vancouver, Canada! I'm in town to attend the Pan Canadian E-learning Workshop, which runs from tomorrow (Monday) to Tuesday. When I was making my travel arrangements for the conference, I decided to fly in a day early -- not because I wanted to have some time to tour Vancouver but to save some money. After a full day of walking around downtown (along the waterfront, through Gastown, the historic core of Vancouver; to the surprisingly large Chinatown (which blessed me with the stillness of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Park), but couldn't get into the museum/archive of The Chinese Cultural Center of Greater Vancouver (though it was supposed to open today); onto the main branch of the Vancouver Public Library, which reminds me of the Toronto Reference Library; the Granville Book company and Chapters Books on Robson Street (which I guess is one of the main drags of Vancouver), along with Granville Street; to dinner at Hon's Wun-Tun House -- and then back to my hotel, the Pan Pacific Hotel Vancouver.
As I walked around today, I saw so many things that intrigued me about Vancouver that I was thinking about ways to share that excitement with readers. The previous paragraph is a start, a laundry list of where I was. But it's 11pm -- and I need to hit the sack. Perhaps more will come later. (I regret not bringing my camera with me but lately, I've gotten tired of schlepping a big camera on my trips to other cities -- it makes stowing my backpack underneath the seat in front of me that much more difficult.
Posted by rdhyee at January 11, 2004 11:31 PM