Tuesday evening, friends from back home who had been carving up Whistler mountain, arrived in Vancouver to stay with us for a couple of days. The first night in town, we took them to Brix to participate in Dine Out Vancouver. The ambiance was great, the service was fantastic, but the food was [...]

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I’ve been wanting to go to the Steveston Village for years. The village is located in Richmond, which is across a couple of bridges from here, roughly an hour South of downtown. Sunday morning, Neil was still in bed even after I had eaten breakfast and showered, so I left him to sleep [...]

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Yesterday, Neil and I were up much later than anticipated, to drive to the Canada-US border. The lens that I had sent in for repair way back in November had finally arrived, but Canon USA would not ship to Canada. Therefore, I had it shipped to a little store in Blaine, Washington, located [...]

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Neil and I met up with a couple of friends for fine Italian dining at Cin Cin. The ambiance was far more intimate and warm than any of the other restaurants we had visited. The service was far more attentive than we had experienced at any other restaurant, which was key to enjoying [...]

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Thursday evening, Neil and I enjoyed a delectable dinner at our first choice restaurant, Le Gavroche. As we walked into the old Victorian house, we were not greeted as expected, but instead, had entered into a hallway lined with rows upon rows of wine bottles. We removed our coats, placed them in the [...]

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