Canadian Capers: On ya bike....Stanley Park, Granville Island and the Fringe

Whimsical Wednesday NOT! Instead of concentrating on being drink fit for this trip I realize now it was probably more important to be bike fit.....Paul is both drink and bike fit. With the weather looking it's best for the week we decided to hire bikes to ride around Stanley Park along the seawall. When we first discussed this I gave the electric bike the nod due to the fact I was curious on how they would feel and how much easier it would be. The rental company we used only had the ordinary deadly treadly.....I really think Paul chose this company as the bike helmet was blue which matched his jacket but then again it might have been the closest to us at the time.

Vancouver bike paths are well mapped and at most times easy to navigate and thankfully pedestrians do get their own seperate path most of the time. There was a couple of hairy moments when we had to ride on the real road.

Paulpedia says that Vancouver is like Perth and Fremantle joined together with the traffic bridges being extremely long and high to allow for the passage of commercial shipping. While riding you notice how many people are out and about walking, riding and roller skating......would be really congested in peak season....the bikes have to go in one direction anti clockwise around the park which is a great idea. This park which appears to be an island is actually a well wooded peninsula the size of Kings Park in Perth (or twice the size of Rottnest Island).

Later in the day we rode over to Granville Island which actually is an "ISLAND" located centrally below the Granville Street bridge. Granville is home to an eclectic collection of industrial style buildings which house artistic businesses, breweries and restaurants which co exist with a large concrete batching plant with artistically muralled silos and trucks......all housed on a very tidy site which produces enough concrete to build a 10 storey building every week.

We finished the day off attending a distillery and a Fringe Festival show about Alzeimers.....a great mix after riding all day.....zzzzzzzzz.