Sunday, April 11, 2010

Vancouver 2010 - Canada Place & Gastown

Canada place

Buildings near-by Canada Place

Gastown, what used to be old warehouse district.. now filled with restaurants and Irish pubs.
Lots of rustic buildingsSteam clock
Canadian Maple delights, good place for maple foodstuff

Rest of Gastown

Vancouver 2010 - Around Granville street and Robson street

Granville Street, the place with highest concentration of pubs/clubs/stripclubs and adult novelty shops, and the location of my hotel :x

Induction button?
Apartment by the bridge

"R.I.P FESTER"

Pillar for the overhead power cables

Granville street at night

"We were made for this. Vancouver 2010"
What can one see with 25c anyway?

Robson street, the up-market shopping district

Vancouver 2010 - Arrival to Vancouver

Went to Vancouver for conference from 21Mar-28Mar and managed to spend sometime shooting around.


Some photos of my room in Ramada hotel located in Downtown Vancouver

New camera bag, messenger bag, luggage

Energy drink (aka coffee) juicer

Flew with JAL

It started snowing in Narita when i was boarding the plane back to Singapore (30 Mar 2010).
Some of the flights got delayed because of the unexpected snow.


Gotten free upgrade to business class on the way back to Singapore :) Its more comfy then UA's business.

Power socket provided in-flight.

Overhead power cables run above the streets in Vancouver, these are for powering the electrical buses.
Electrical buses