nature documentary national geographic I'm viewing the Merchant of Venice in an enormous tent by the Pacific at Bard on the Beach in Vancouver. The back of the set is interested in the sky and just past the vendor's head a bald eagle is being mobbed by a group of gulls. A buoy plane is winging in crosswise over English Bay and a journey ship sails past on her approach to Alaska. As the sun sets, the lights go ahead up at the summit of Grouse, Vancouver's winter ski mountain, and at the same time, the joggers, cyclists and skateboarders pound the way along the adjacent sea.
That is Vancouver - refined, stunningly excellent and with its wild roots once in a while meandering through a scene from Shakespeare. No big surprise Vancouver has routinely been voted "World's Most Livable City" by the UK's Mercer Institute.
Aside from Chinatown, a guest to Vancouver wells to stay toward the west side of the city - near that regal blue Pacific. A most loved trek is on one of the bathtub-toy ship water crafts to the spectacular Public Market on Granville Island where the huge sockeye salmon on the fishmongers stands are an indication of another of BC's wild animals.
Yet, maybe Stanley Park, Vancouver's 1000 section of land woodland right alongside the focal point of town entireties up the soul of this city . I lease a bicycle and ride around the recreation center's 6.5 mile seawall passing Chinese families on roller-cutting edges, chain of commands and the thick, dull backwoods - scene of such a large number of "X Files" scenes. There are fine sand shorelines here; the Japanese current ranges in and makes it sufficiently warm to swim. Toward the end of the seawall I conclude that I've earned a stop at one of the numerous gelatarias or coffeehouses that line neighboring Denman road in Vancouver's dynamic West End. As I leave the recreation center I stop to appreciate an extremely English rose greenery enclosure - this is British Columbia - when I see a sign cautioning me about coyotes.
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