Having flown into Vancouver on the 3rd July 2009 to start my 10 week Churchill Scholarship tour of Canada, i was to be met by outstanding weather conditions. Although quite humid the sun was out in full force, which meant for ideal outdoor weather. With no definite plan of where i was going to be staying i decided to find accomodation in Vancouvers Downtown area which is where i stayed for the next 4 days. Aswell as getting a good insight into the city of Vancouver, i visited Stanley Park which is famous in Canada as a major attraction, as people travel far and wide to walk around this 1200 acre area of parkland. When i first started to walk around i saw the coastal mountains from Vancouvers Harbour Front and was amazed at some of the views that i was able to see while standing at the harbour. What caught my attention the most was the vastness of where i was and how huge the mountains were in comparison to everything else.
In the summer alot of canadians decide to go on "Vacation" and decide to hire a rental vehicle and take it across canada for a break. This to amazed me as canadian people think nothing of driving 10 hours in day to get from one place to another. The bridges, rocks, waters aswell as other features i saw as i walked around were spectacular. As i came to the end of my walk around Stanley Park it levelled out into a beach area, from here i could see far into the distance and was able to see a selection of boats passing from vancouver over to the nearby vancouver island. Vancouver island itself is a similar size the the whoile of the UK. This just to give a picture of the distance and magnitude of the journey ahead in the coming weeks.