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2September 30, 2016 by readlisaread
There is a brilliant Monty Python skit (well, come on, they are ALL brilliant) where an Hungarian-English Phrasebook has been very, very badly translated. Here’s a video:
Even though I have only ever a few times been in foreign lands where I don’t speak the language, I can still relish the feeling of being a tourist, even if I am not far from home.
Recently, I managed a day off in the middle of a business trip and took a walk to Granville Island.
Come on along…. (click on any photo to embiggen it)
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- Not far from my hotel, this lovely little brick footpath showed itself
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- The last of the Autumn flowers looking perky still
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- I came upon an Elementray school… how apropos
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- …and then upon this beautiful green space
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- More cobbled path
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- Until I came to the edge of False Creek proper
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- …Where I looked for my friend Donnell’s boat, Merva
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- so much lush green space
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- More fall flowers
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- They were doing renos on some of the shore-side condos, but I wanted this to be a slide, not a tip chute
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- and then there was boardwalk
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- …and this darling bridge
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- I took this picture because it had examples of many different eras
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- The iconic entranceway for cars
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- As much as this place caters to tourists and shoppers, a quick peak behind the shops took me to a working (and busy) boat yard
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- Shopping includes a couple of exquisite art galleries
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- I had to ask if I could touch this piece, and I got permission. It was worth it
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- More iconography
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- Inside the shops… all the spices (and spice accoutrement, like these mortars and pestles… please)
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- I especially liked the Rainbow cake.
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- The stacking game of this produce stand was on point
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- I went on the little harbour boat cruise
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- and saw float homes (the yellow one has a basement, apparently)
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- Under the Cambie street bridge…
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- City sky line
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- Disembarking at Granville Island again
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- Street entertainment– liek this bubble guy
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- so many bubbles
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- Everyone gets a bubble
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- you get a bubble…. YOU get a bubble…..
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- Just enjoying the re-purposing of the buildings
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- Famous multi-store, multi-floor toy shop
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- …with a kids’ entrance!
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- Colourful cement stacks.
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- Works yard
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- Famoue Emily Carr Art College (with an Opus store just up the street)
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- Headding back to the path
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- a couple of more fall flowers
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- …past the harbour view
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- down another cobbled path
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- ….to Olympic Village…
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- …To meet my Bestie and my Bestie-in-Law for dinner….
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Please can you take your mommy with you sometime for one of these wonderful walks?
Heh… You just went on one (virtually)