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Vancouver – Ten of the Best
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
Vancouver will host the Olympic Winter Games in 2010. Mercer is the British Institute regularly sees it as a very livable city in the world. Was voted the world's most livable city by the British Institute for Mercer three years in a row. Here are some reasons for this:
1) The Stanley Park Seawall. Vancouver nature and on this huge hike 6.5 miles around the dam, you get everything: the Pacific Ocean surrounds the ancient rain forest that is Stanley Park. About Watersnowcapped mountains and distant islands dream in the mist, like a northern hemisphere Bali Hai. The hike can Seawall overcrowded. Sikh with a turban on a mountain bike and Chinese families on rollerblades whiz of a proud Russian matrons themselves through their evening constitutional. The walk takes about two hours. Bikes and skates can be rented by Harbor Air Seaplanes Adventure Center next to Canada Place: 604 233 3500th
2) Environments – Kitsilano. Named after an IndianVancouver chef and former hippie haven, has kits heritage buildings, hills with stunning views, funky shops, lush gardens and one of the best beaches in the city. Catch a number 4 or 7 bus on Granville Street and get off at the capers excellent organic supermarket on 4 Avenue. Walking down Vine Street to the Pacific. Kits enormous swimming pool. Head back to very steep Yew Street, taking in some jazz to Rossini and reward yourself with a latte with the locals at Kits coffee shop.
3)Gourmet: Fresh wild salmon from BC to the mountain streams, fruit and wines from the Okanagan BC's are producing some of the fantastic to take on the establishment of Vancouver's best restaurants in Canada. Lumiere on Broadway is considered by many as the nation's top restaurant. If you want to get a glimpse of the place without getting your budget, go for a tasting bar, next to the main room and order one or more of the 16CAD selected dishes from the main menu. The pappardelleShort rib meat or roasted sablefish are two big favorites. Reservations are allowed – the very popular bar is first come, first served. Closed on Mondays. Lumiere 2551 W. Broadway. Tel: 604 739 8185 .. Take advantage of a series of 10 UBC bus or ten minutes by taxi from the city center.
4) is from the sublime …. At the opposite end of the spectrum Restaurants Casa Gelato – home of 198 varieties of ice cream. Next to the tracks on an east-side industrial park homesick Italian Vincenzo Misceo sits in apainted pink, neon-lit ice cream parlor, surrounded by his creations flavors: pear gorgonzola, wild berries, jalapeno, vegemite. Misceo acknowledges the occasional failure – Chocolate Fudge and salmon? Take the 22 Knight Bus Burrard to Glen. 1033 Venables St. Lacasagelato.com
5) The Absolute Spa at The Century. Vancouver's most popular days SpA, they scatter rose petals in the bath and wrap in chocolate, unfortunately not edible. (For real chocolate, see below.) Then rubwhile dozens of horizontal momentum warm water jets into your body. In the opulent relaxation room, a snack of strawberries dipped in chocolate, then take a dip in the pool or ozonated a eucalyptus steam bath. 1015 Burrard Street, Tel: 604 684 2772
6) Hollywood North and Chocoholic Bar Vancouver is known as Hollywood North, thanks to tax breaks, and that mighty attitude. X-Files' David Duchovny recommends Gerard's Lounge Bar in the Sutton Place Hotel as a place to spot celebrities.With its fireplace and wood paneling, Gerard said it is one of the coziest places for a martini, but, honestly, the celebrities, if only ten yards away is the hotel bar Chocoholic? Forget David, Gillian and new local Goldie Hawn and director for the crepes, pastries, mousses and ice on the $ 19 chocolate buffet. THU-SUN Sutton Place Hotel, 845 Burrard Street.
7) The best cappuccino in Western Canada. Caffe Artigiano, 763 Hornby Street, opposite the Vancouver Art Gallery. Tiredof anemic foam cups from Starbucks? There are Italians in Vancouver, ready with the antidote. From the original Venetian coffee houses Artigiano product is a robust, creamy concoction into the gallery-goers, office workers and media people from the surrounding CBC studios.
Bard on the Beach. English actor / director Christopher Gaze took Shakespeare and put him in meters of the ocean under a huge tent. Throughout the summer, three Shakespeare plays are set against the backdrop ofSea and mountains. The Bard, with the Bard, an excellent fit to the gulls, seaplanes, cruise ships – coyote occasionally over. Bardonthebeach.org Tel 604 739 0559
9) Vancouver has the cheapest CDs in North America. Downtown try to A & B Sound at 556 Seymour for pop and rock. Sikora's Classical Records at 432 W. Hastings for classical.
10) Jericho Beach and Spanish Banks: The width of the beaches of Kitsilano on the headland, the home is locatedUniversity of British Columbia. If they are not as a jumble of architecture, it would be the most beautiful UBC campus was the setting. It is not just these two beaches with views of the islands in the Georgia Strait and the mountains and forests of the North Shore of Vancouver, are some compensation. Excellent swimming from June to September – Guards patrol. Yes, we're hundreds of miles north of freezing, San Franciscan unswimmable beaches and yes, we. Swim
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