VanAussie Daily

6 months after we got home

Jared — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:36:23 +0000

So it’s been 6 months since we left the land of maple syrup, mountains, moose and a variety of other things starting with M. It was so odd leaving Canada after spending three years living in Vancouver. Living in a city as vibrant and fun as it could be, with events happening pretty much every [...]

Hopkins Landing

Jared — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:38:11 +0000

Forgive me readers, for I have sinned. It has been many days since my last blog post. This is because we’re into to our last two weeks here in Canada and there is just way too much to do in our last small amount of time here. One thing we did do two weekends ago [...]

Come with me on my daily trip to work

Jared — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 01:13:04 +0000

I thought I’d bring you guys with me on my trip to work, starting with the view from our patio and ending with the trip on the skytrain from Waterfront station all the way down to Riverrock Casino. My trip from there on is pretty uneventful, so this is all you get Like Unlike

Freeze line

Jared — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:25:40 +0000

One of the nice things about being in Vancouver during the winter is waking up and seeing the north shore mountains absolutely covered with snow, all the way down to a certain point. This is the freeze line, and it’s such an obvious cut off most of the time that it is quite remarkable to [...]

Timelapse: Drive up to Cypress Mountain

Jared — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:12:15 +0000

I put together a quick timelapse of our trip up to Cypress the other day to go skiing. Was a great fun day, found a new run that was a lot of fun (trees then open with jumps to play on), got stuck on an intense run that was made up of 2ft by 2ft [...]

Dog friendly

Jared — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:31:37 +0000

One thing I’m certainly going to miss is just how dog friendly everybody and everywhere is over her in Vancouver and BC in general. Around town folks take their dogs with them everywhere, like for instance I saw someone last night taking their rather large dog into the bottle shop opposite our apartment. The other [...]

CanAussie Australia Day BBQ

Jared — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:12:43 +0000

What a great day this was! We had a BBQ to celebrate Australia day on the Saturday following Australia Day, out in Stanley Park under Ceperley Pavillion near 2nd beach. Now, this may sound like a great place to host an event during summer when it’s warm, but during the winter when it’s cold and [...]

The seawall & bright clear winter days

Jared — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 10:17:57 +0000

One thing we’re going to miss for sure is the Seawall. This is the bike and walking path that skirts Vancouver for kilometers, stretching from the western corner of kits all the way to Science World on False Creek, then back out and around Stanley Park. At the moment it’s great, as we live less [...]

Just Right

Jared — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:28:34 +0000

Something I’m certainly not going to miss is some of the breakfast cereals over here. Just Right is a bland piss poor excuse for the toasted golden goodness that I remember in Australia, and Special K flakes look like they’ve been put on a Fatkins Diet, and are now pale, shaky looking things about 20% [...]

Less than three months

Jared — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 01:35:40 +0000

It’s now almost two months till we’re on an airplane and heading back to Australia. Permanently. How crazy is that? Like I’ve said before, this brings mixed feelings, as there’s some things I’m looking forward to doing at home, but there’s others that I’m going to miss from Vancouver. So seeing as I haven’t really [...]