Have you ever hopped on a ferry from Horseshoe Bay to spend a few hours on Bowen Island? If you haven’t, you should. It’s the perfect weekend afternoon getaway. Door-to-door from our downtown apartment, the trip only takes an hour. That’s roughly the same amount of time commuters spend travelling from Vancouver to Surrey every…
Month: February 2016
Have Your Chocolate & Drink It Too
Vancouver is undeniably a coffee town, but from mid January to February each year, hot chocolate registers on the radars of caffeine fiends thirsting for warm beverages to ward off winter’s chill. That’s right, the annual Hot Chocolate Festival is back and in its sixth year, bringing Vancouverites decadent, delicious, creative and downright strange concoctions….
From Sea to Sky: Tubing at Cypress
The other day I went to The Juice Truck for lunch. It was pouring so hard that the sound of drops hitting the pavement drowned out all other noise. Ponds formed around curbs and Ontario Street transformed into a slow-flowing river. When I made it down the hill from Broadway, I was soaking wet and…