Stanley Park, oh Stanley Park …!

Yes I did! The complete tour of the Stanley Park in 2 hours, and my feet can certainly testify it! I’ve been several times at the Stanley Park, also at English bay, at the third beach but it was the first time I did the entire loop.

The seawall offers a breathtaking view of downtown Vancouver, Golden Lion Gates, North Vancouver, and the Mountains. Starting from the Vancouver Rowing Club to English Bay, it’s a distance of about 9.6 km. I must confess: it’s definitively something to do at least once when you are in Vancouver. Aside from the scenery, the beautiful view, taking this walk certainly helps clear your mind while breathing the sea air and it’s the perfect excuse for rewarding yourself afterwards with some sushi from Yamato on Davie between Granville and Seymour.

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Ça y est je l’ai fait… Le tour complet du Stanley Park en 2 heures. Eh oui… Ce ne sont pas mes pieds qui vous diront le contraire ! Mais qu’elle belle promenade par cette journée ensoleillée que Dame nature à bien voulu nous donner durant cette fin de semaine.

J’ai déjà été plusieurs fois au Stanley Park, également à English Bay, à la troisième plage mais c’était la première fois que je faisais le tour du Stanley d’un trait.

Le chemin du bord de mer vous offre une vue imprénable sur d’une part le centre-ville de Vancouver, le Lion Gate Bridge, North Vancouver, les montagnes. En partant du Vancouver Rowing club jusqu’à English Bay, en passant en dessous du Lions Gate Bridge, c’est une distance d’environ 9,6 Km que vous êtes invités à parcourir…Je dois avouer que c’est une expérience à réaliser au moins une fois en étant à Vancouver. Mise à  part le paysage, la belle vue, il n’y a rien de tel pour se remettre les idées claires en respirant l’air marin, surtout lorsque vous vous récompensez par la suite par des sushis de Yamato Sushi sur Davie Street entre Granville et Seymour.

Silence ! I am listening to stones’ songs !!

I finally went to Van Dusen Garden yesterday with Alexandra. For the first time I saw how a garden can be valorised by sculptures. There was such a beautiful harmony between plants and stones. The Zimsculpt exhibition was featured by Zimbabwean sculptors.

Visiting the garden with this exhibition was like we were reading a poetry written in two differents languages, both of them talking to each other and trying to express to the visitor the beauty of the nature and human ingeniosity. I would have like to write many things about this exhibition but I learned with this visit that sometimes words are not necessary.

Enjoy the pictures !

UBC’s Rose Garden

After seven months in Vancouver it was time (during the last sunny week-end, sniff !) for a real visit of UBC, in order to learn more about this university which makes vancouver so proud. I have been there a couple of times and every times one single word comes to my mouth:  awesome !

I was really impressed by the buildings, the atmosphere, the landscaping. Also, from what I have seen, many monuments remind to the visitor the importance of the First Nations’ history along the years like totems and the anthropology museum. I think that to study there, enjoy this atmosphere (and the beach !!!)  is a huge opportunity for the students, which also costs a lot !
I took time to visit the rose garden. There, I saw differents types, colors and shapes of roses, like I have never seen.

You don’t need to know many things about gardening (like me !! ) before you fall in love with UBC’s rose garden. I really appreciated this visit because this place reminded me the importance of being fascinated by huge things like sea waves and also by small things like a bee taking a flower’s pollen. I realised that I was witnessing an important moment of the plants life cycle, the natural pollination (my botanical classes came suddenly in my mind !). For sure, this moment was priceless !

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I don’t want to stop here my new passion for gardens (lol !), so I plan to visit very soon the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, known as the Garden of Ease (humm!!), and also the Queen Elizabeth Park and the VanDusen Botanical Garden with its stone sculptures, specially the Zimsculpt.

 

Wreck Beach Vancouver !! Yeh Baby !!

I had a wonderful day yesterday at Wreck beach !! I had never seen a place like this ! It was like the beach was separated from the rest of the city and had his own spirit, his own rules !! Of course it’s a special place: you have to climb down around 400 steps to get there.

We spent all the day, lying on the sand, enjoying the sunshine, listening music !  As I said, very special place with very special peoples: at Wreck Beach you can count by your fingers people who are not naked (we were in this group lol !) !!! There, the time flies differently, your mind doesn’t think anymore, you forget everything and you just enjoy THE moment !!  And of course if you are in good company it’s magic !

Today, we will try English Bay !!! Yeh Baby !!!

Capilano Suspension Bridge

Places like the Capilano Park don’t need many words for being described… just wonderful !

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I visited the Capilano Bridge a couple of weeks ago with my English tutor, her husband and Helen’s parents, who had came to visit her. It was such a beautiful day  ! Trees almost as old as Western civilization on this continent and the suspension bridge about 130 meters up into the air, everything was really well located in this park. I really enjoyed this park which really contributes to make Vancouver “the best place on earth”.

During our visit we noticed the presence of channels of radio and television on the site. On returning home, we realized the tragedy that had occurred the night before: a student had fallen from a high viewpoint, which was supposedly “closed for repairs” during our visit.