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Dreaming of sunnier skies and clearer days ... I shot this photo at Stanley Park in late August but Vancouver is actually enshrouded in smoke today from the U.S. forest fires just south of us. Hoping all my Instafam in the States are OK! 📷 Scenic Stanley Park has a number of beaches and this one has a fantastic view of the Lions Gate Bridge and the suburb of North Vancouver in the distance. #vancouver #vancouverbc #beautifulbc #westcoast #vancouvercanada #vancouverviews #vancouverlife #pnwonderland #vancouver_ig #vancouverisawesome #explorebclocal #vancouverphotography #vancity #vancityhype #vancityvibe #veryvancouver #myvancouver #yvr #explorecanada #stanleypark #travelgram #travel #travelguide #traveldeeper #blog #wanderful_places #travelingram #beautifuldestinations
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Where were you that day? What do you remember most? Today, I’m thinking about all the people who lost loved ones as well as everyone who was impacted in the Sept. 11 terror attacks.💔 Visiting the 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York is an unutterably wrenching experience but it’s important and you should go if you can. Take the tour and bring a lot of Kleenex. The museum reopens to the public today. 📷 ➊ This is one of the two square reflecting pools set in the footprint of where the Twin Towers stood. These pools comprise the Memorial portion of the sight. ⇦ SWIPE to see photos of the Museum. ➋ This wall features a quote by Virgil that states: “No day shall erase you from the memory of time.” Each of the 2,983 bluish/purplish squares around the quote is a unique shade, to commemorate each of the 2,977 people killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and the six lives lost in the Feb. 26, 1993 World Trade Center bombing. ➌ This column once stood in the core of the South Tower, probably between floors 30 and 33. During the tower’s collapse, extreme stresses caused this multi-ton piece of steel to fold over onto itself. #911 #honor911 #911memorial #wtc #911museum #september11 #nyc #september112001 #september11th #museum #museums #memorial #memorials #travel #blog #newyork #newyorkcity
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It might feel a tiny bit like autumn in the mornings here but summer is hanging in there.😎 Today our high will be 28C (83F) and the forecast for the next week calls for temperatures in the same toasty range.☀️ I worked incredibly hard over my long weekend doing house things and I’m looking forward to going back to work today for a bit of a break!😜 Hope you all have a great week. 📷 Did you know Vancouver has the world’s longest uninterrupted waterfront path? It’s 28 km (17 miles) long, and that includes the 9-km (5.5-mile) Stanley Park Seawall, shown here. The Seawall is one of the city’s most popular destinations for tourists and visitors alike and in a non-pandemic summer, it’s usually packed with walkers, joggers and cyclists.🚶🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🚴🏻♀️ #staycation #stanleypark #stanleyparkseawall #vancouver #vancouverbc #beautifulbc #westcoast #vancouvercanada #vancouverviews #vancouverlife #vancouver_ig #vancouverphotography #vancity #vancityhype #vancityvibe #yvr #veryvancouver #myvancouver #travel #beautifuldestinations #travelgram #blog #bestplacestogo #travelinspiration
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Happy Sunday! It’s starting to feel a tiny bit like fall here and I love it.🍁🌾🍂Autumn is my favourite season, with its cool mornings and hot days. But it also feels really wrong to not be travelling or at least planning a trip; shoulder season has always been my favourite time to visit new destinations because it’s cheaper, the lineups are shorter and the weather is better. 𝐐: Do you have a favourite time of year for travelling?✈️🚆🚘 📷 The steam clock in Vancouver’s Gastown neighbourhood is one of the most popular attractions here and when there’s no pandemic, the area is always packed with tourists taking photos and videos.📱 The clock is the world’s first to be powered by steam, which winds the weights and blows the whistles on the hour. When I decided to staycation here this summer I knew I absolutely needed to see what tourists are always looking at.😂 ⇦ SWIPE to see video of the steam clock. #vancouver #vancouverbc #beautifulbc #westcoast #seriouslywestcoast #steamclock #gastown #gastownvancouver #vancouvercanada #vancouverviews #vancouver_ig #explorebclocal #vancity #vancityhype #vancityvibe #veryvancouver #blog #myvancouver #yvr #explorecanada #travelguide #wanderful_places #beautifuldestinations
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When my ship comes in, the first thing I’m doing is buying a little boat so I can sail off into the sunset.⛵️ We can dream, right?😀 Until then I’ll just be here on land, taking in one of the prettiest views in Vancouver. 𝐐: What are you doing with the money you’ve saved by not travelling?💵 I’ve actually needed some house repairs done so the money has come in very handy!🔩🧰🛠 📷 If you’re visiting Vancouver, check out iconic Prospect Point in Stanley Park, the city’s 1,001-acre (405-hectare) jewel in the heart of the city, for amazing views of the Lions Gate Bridge, Burrard Inlet and the North Shore mountains.🏔 #vancouver #vancouverbc #beautifulbc #westcoast #seriouslywestcoast #vancouvercanada #vancouverviews #vancouverlife #pnwonderland #vancouver_ig #vancouverisawesome #explorebclocal #vancouverphotography #vancity #vancityhype #vancityvibe #veryvancouver #myvancouver #yvr #explorecanada #prospectpoint #stanleypark #travelnow #blog #traveldestination #traveltherenext #travelgram #beautifuldestinations
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Do you like suspension bridges? During the time I’ve spent hanging around my own city I’ve discovered Vancouver seems to have an inordinate number of suspension bridges and tree walks.😀 I guess that makes sense, though, seeing as we have so many trees here.🌲🌿🌳 The bridges have all been nice but this one, which is at the top of the Sea to Sky Gondola🚠 about an hour’s drive north of Vancouver, is the longest and has the prettiest views. 𝐐: Have you been on a suspension bridge? If you have, do you find that swaying in the wind to be a bit freaky, as I do?💨😵 📷 The Sea to Sky Gondola ride to get to the suspension bridge is awesome too. It’s 10 minutes long and it goes nearly 900 metres (3,000 feet) above sea level. At the top there are lookouts, restaurants, hiking trails plus this suspension bridge. ⇦ SWIPE to see a photo of the gondola. (The colour is slightly off on this photo as I shot it through the protective film on the windows.) #staycation #seatosky #seatoskygondola #vancouver #vancouverbc #bridges #suspensionbridge #bridgesofinstagram #vancouvercanada #vancouverviews #vancouverlife #vancouver_ig #vancouverisawesome #explorebc #vancouverphotography #squamish #travelcaptures #travelnow #travelmoments #places_wow #bestplaces #travelinspiration #blog #travelinggram #travelgram #wanderful_places #mytraveldiary
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So, I’ll be back to work soon after a week of not doing much, but it’s a bit exciting ... My employer has told us we’ll be working from home🏡 until at least January and during my time off I actually went into my office and brought home my desktop computer. No more squinting into my tiny laptop, yay!💻 I’m looking forward to having an “office” again, even if it’s only in my dining room.😂 𝐐: Do you think work from home will become a permanent thing?🗂 📷 I love art, whether it’s street art or museum art, and will always seek it out. During my staycation I was thrilled to see some First Nations artwork that I’d read about but had never seen. This is Haida artist Bill Reid’s 4.5-ton cedar sculpture Raven and the First Humans, at the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver. It depicts the ancestral past of the Haida people when Raven, a wise and powerful yet mischievous trickster, found the first humans in a clam shell on the beach, and is coaxing them out of it. ⇦ SWIPE to see the back of the sculpture. #art #sculpture #haida #haidaart #museumsofinstagram #vancouver #vancouverbc #vancouvercanada #vancouverviews #vancouverlife #vancouver_ig #travelgram #travel #travelgoals #travelguide #travellers #travelgram #traveldeeper #blog #wanderful_places #traveldiary #travelmore #travelcaptures
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Did you know Vancouver hosted the Winter Olympics in 2010?🎿⛸🥌 The Olympic Cauldron🔥 is one of the permanent reminders that we have of that fantastic party. The Cauldron isn’t lit up very often these days but it’s still a great photo spot, framed by the city on one side and the mountains and sea on the other.🇨🇦 𝐐: Do you like watching the Olympics or have you been to an Olympic Games? I’d really been looking forward to watching the 2020 Tokyo Summer Games on TV this year.🇯🇵 #staycation #olympiccauldron #olympics #2010olympics #winterolympics #vancouverviews #vancouver_canada #vancouver #vancouverbc #vancouvercanada #vancouverlife #vancouver_ig #explorebc #vancouverphotography #travelgrammer #travelnow #traveltherenext #mytraveldiary #travelcaptures #travelmood #blog #travelgram #beautifuldestinations
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It’s a bit of a bummer to be staying put again during a week off but with Vancouver being home to so many cultures and cuisines, one thing I haven’t lacked for is truly fantastic food. One of my favourites recently was this Moroccan lamb dish that was braised in ras el hanout spices, and served with vegetables and couscous. It was fabulous! 𝐐: What food or dish is your country famous for? #staycation #vancouver #vancouverbc #vancouvercanada #vancouverlife #vancouver_ig #vancouverisawesome #explorebc #vancouverphotography #travelgram #beautifuldestinations #blog #foodaholic #foodinsta #foodie #foodinspiration #raselhanout #vancouvereats
