Vancouver - Day 11 - Winding down

Today is our last day in the city of Vancouver. We had no tours to do, no more packing to complete. Just a day for us to pick up on the things we enjoyed and wanted to do again.

Firstly we went off to the Museum of Vancouver to see some more of the cultural history on how Vancouver started and how it has progressed since these early days. It is well worth a visit to see the major changes it has taken since it was incorporated in 1886.

We also tried out a new piece of transport for Vancouver - the waterbus. This took us from the museum back to Granville Island for more food goodies. After stuffing ourselves with more local delicacies we took the boat a few more stops to Yaletown. This is a nice part of town, which doesn't have many sights to see, but has some really nice redbrick buildings. Bizarrely there is a Mini dealership there too. This epitomises the area as being somewhere "trendy" to live and also work.

From here we headed back into town on the skytrain, which is just a subway system, but all very ultra modern and swish - all automated and very very punctual.
In town we headed to the Marine Building. Although there isn't a tour of this building you are able to get into the lobby of the building to see some of the architecture and stonework. It is all very swish. You can see nothing like this will ever be done again as big corps like building glass enclosed structures and nothing like this.
This blip was taken of an elevator door - yes the door. This just shows you how intricate things are and how much thought was put into the design of this buidling.
I loved it.