Meg and Greg’s Tag On Holiday

The last entry should have been for yesterday (Monday June 4), but I forgot to post it!

Well given there wasn’t much around here and I didn’t fancy going to a theme park alone, I decided to have a bit of a sleep in this morning, after Greg had left at 7am (hehe). Since the weather outside can be quite humid and the sun is very hot I thought I’d visit a shopping centre (sorry, mall). We have a rental car, but I haven’t driven on the other side of the road this trip, and I don’t really want to do it alone the first time. So I looked up the location of a few and discovered that I could catch public transport but the bus only goes every 2 hours and of course I had just missed one. Read the rest of this entry »

First impressions of Tampa. We’re not sure if it’s because we have been rushing around for 4 weeks, but we find Tampa to be very slow and inefficient.

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The tropical depression had mostly passed by the time both of us arrived in Tampa last night. Unfortunately one of my bags was delayed in transit. I knew I might have been in trouble when the plane I was on stopped moments after it pulled away from the gate and I saw a baggage handler put a couple of bags, including one of mine , onto the flight. But I only saw one of two of my bags. I guess with the number of flights and airports on this trip, it was going to happen sometime.

The depression looked like a sea of clouds with lots of peaks that look like icebergs.

Tampa depression

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When we planned our trip to North America, early in the planning we considered going to Cuba as well. We decided to travel in May because this was the best time to avoid the hurricane season. Tampa is not far from Cuba and this week marks the start of the hurricane season. Guess what, we’re flying into a tropical depression. Not a hurricane, but the flight could be a little bumpy. Click on the image for more detail.

Another fine day in Vancouver and today started with breakfast at the shopping centre across the road that doesn’t abide by it’s own shopping hours. Our hotel is across the road from city hall and city centre shopping centre. The hours are clearly posted around the centre, but everytime we go there they are open early, or open later than the signs indicate. We’ve both had enough of egg and some form of pig in either a bun, or crepe. I just wanted some toast.

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Today we headed to Gastown to see this steam powered clock everyone keeps talking about. The clock was reasonably easy to locate, it was on the corner with all the tourists. We hung around the old town for a while before heading to Granville island. Granville island isn’t really an island, but more of a peninsula because we could get to it with the public bus.

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We started the day by going to Grouse Mountain. Grouse Mountain is on the northern side of Vancouver  and overlooks downtown. Today was another clear day so we could see as far as the hills of Vancouver Island.

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Yesterday we started our day at the Royal British Columbia Museum. The museum has many displays about British Columbia which could take days to peruse. Although these are interesting, this isn’t what we came to see. The museum has a special exhibition on the titanic. The museum has an entire themed section complete with boarding passes on entry. We started with a 45 minute IMAX movie about how the items were recovered along with the events leading up to the sinking. At the end of the exhibition we compare our boarding passes against the live and lost list. I was lost, Meg Lived. This was despite my first class ticket. There were quite a few themed actors going around the halls who had stories to accompany the exhibits.

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Today we went to the Butchart gardens. These gardens are over a hundred years old and are the result of the Butchart family filling in a limestone quarry. It’s a slick operation and kind of like a Disneyland for flowers. My idea of gardening is making up a batch of Round-up, so this was pretty impressive. Read the rest of this entry »

We drove from Port Hardy at the northern end of Vancouver island to Victoria in the south. This was a 6 hour drive which meandered along the highway 19A coast road. We passed through many fishing towns before arriving in Victoria. Read the rest of this entry »