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5-13 june 1999

Vancouver

Henning Nielsen
2005-11-10 15:20:24

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Saturday june 5'th

This trip started on saturday morning. First I took the bus from my home to Billund, and then using Maersk-Air to London, Gatwick. In London I had to change airport to Heathrow, where British Airways would take me to Vancouver

The fligt from Billund was late - almost 2 hours. But that was no problem - I thought - I had plenty of time - I thought - because I had to leave Heathrow at 6 pm - I thought. But arriving at Heathrow I discovered that I actually was very close to being late. 6 pm was ok - but that was arriving in Vancouver - the departure was 4.30 pm. So always remember to check you travelplan

But I reached the plane anyway - luckily
Then onto a full jumbo-jet to Vancouver. During the trip I spoke with an elderly pair from South Africa -very nice people.

Arriving in Vancouver - pretty tired - get a taxi - in to Shaughnessy Village - ny hotel booked pr. phone from back home. It was a pretty nice and cheap place to stay. Very small room, but your own bath, tv and a microwave!

Checkin in at the hotel and to my room at 7.th floor - with a view across Downtown Vancouver - and what a view it was!

Sunday june 6.th

This is the day where you have to find out where you are and why. So I walked a lot around the town. To a place called Granville Island - some kind of recreativ area - which only North Americans can enjoy - with the Aquabus crossing False Creek to Downtown - look around a little - then to Stanley Park - and a nice little walk along the bay - around 7 miles or so.

Monday june 7.th

Back to Downtown - and look at the highly overrated Canada Place, where all the ships for Alaska docks. And of course it started raining cats and dogs, so I went to a coffeeshop, where I for the ...