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Chinatown
Friday, June 17th Skytrain to Downtown, lots of walking In the morning we tried to stay at the same hotel, so we would give our bodies a rest from the stressful riding yesterday, but the hotel would not honor the same price for 2 additional nights. This time I tried Booking.com and found a Bed and Breakfast, we rode our bikes out to it, luckily not making a long ride. We found a house in the suburbs and we headed that way, about halfway there I received a text giving me instructions on how to access the door and instructions to get into it. This was a first for us, we arrived and had to enter a code to enter into the house and were given room C by the instructions, We stepped in and saw lots of shoes just inside the door, I was thinking there were many people in this house, but only saw a couple of college age Chinese students, the rest were slippers we were to put on while in the house. One of the young students gave us a tour of the house and the house rules and we put our bike away in the garage. We settled, did laundry, made ourselves a sandwich and got instructions on which bus to take into downtown. Again another bus driver who was nice to us and let us ride for free to the rail station, from once at the Sky rail we got round trip tickets and headed to Vancouver.
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The weather was perfect, we walked around, checked out Chinatown, the number of homeless people was incredible in the area, maybe paranoid, I thought someone was following us for a while, but all was OK, from there we went to see some gardens and then walked by a soccer practice facility were we stopped for a while just to rest our feet. There was a lot of people going towards the stadium, it was a Canadian Football game that night, the BC Lions were playing, it would have been nice to see it , but not something I would do at home. We continued our walk, there was an Asian festival near the Art Museum , we got some treats and listened for a while before moving on to get dinner. We had seen a Japanese restaurant earlier, we came back to it and had a bowl of rice with pork, the bowl was incredibly hot, it stayed hot for about 15 minute , all the while continuing to cook the rice, making it crunchy, it was a new meal for me but not one I will search out again as a must have. After hours of walking we took the Sky-train back and still hungry made ourselves another sandwich and rested for the night.
Carmen - As I walk around Vancouver I am reminded of New York, all the different languages being spoken around me, the diversity and the different communities. I loved going to their Chinatown and getting to taste the different foods. Their shops are very deep - they appear to be a small shop but go deep into the old buildings. Traveling by bike limits what we can actually buy and take home with us, so I keep taking pictures and keep eating the food!