The plan for today was an exploration of Vancouver by water taxi. After breakfast from a bakery less than 2 minutes from our hotel, we headed to the nearest water taxi stop.
First stop was Granville Island. The main attraction was a large indoor market, with other smaller shops surrounding it, street artists, etc. After a wander round the various stalls and shops, where we saw fruit stall attendants seemingly creating anti-gravity cherry stacks, we decided to pick from numerous food stands for lunch, culminating with a HUGE slice of lemon meringue pie.
We got back on the water taxi, this time for a longer ride to nearly the end of the line to the Plaza of Nations.
From here we wandered towards Chinatown, stopping at a Chinese supermarket – they had, amongst lots of the usual live seafood, crabs from Dungeness! The architecture on this leg was as usual interesting, and we got a sneaky look into the football stadium through the back door.
Once in Gastown we had a wander around the varied shops, finding an interesting and very well stocked vinyl record store, some very nice cars, and an ice cream dipped in chocolate! When done we wandered back to the hotel.
To end the day we opted against the hotel’s recommended Italian restaurant and picked a very small Italian street food place. Half the price, double the quantity and incredibly good. And because we tipped for a takeaway, the owner gave us a free Tiramisu!