Coovey? The V-Coove? Old ‘couver?
Things they have a lot of in Vancouver, besides movie shoots and sushi restaurants:
- Trees
- Coffee shops (I love that you can get a good Americano in the gift shop at the Vancouver Aquarium)
- Crepe places
- Gelato places
- Joggers
Hopefully number 5 will peer pressure me into doing some form of actual exercise. By Toronto (and the rest of North America) I’m pretty average, but by Vancouver standards I’m kind of a porker. Luckily, UBC has a nice pool and is surrounded by bike paths.
Alex and I didn’t find a place on our foray to Vancouver (“The Coov”? I need an ironic Vancouver nickname, like “the T-Dot,” but “the Coov” sounds vaguely pornographic). But we did see lots of stuff, including the gorgeous Jurassic Park-type forests surrounding UBC (!), creepy naked and semi-naked men on the nude beach right near UBC, that corner where the Starbuckses are kitty corner, Ian, the setup for the “Tour de Gastown,” a heron, lots of gelato shops and crepe stores, dolphins and belugas and sharks at the aquarium, and, uh, a crazy lady being held down by security guards. Vancouver has its ups and downs.
We did take pictures, but Alex has the camera.