Category: Travel

  • Sunday 6 August 2006 Highlights: Major League Baseball match – Seattle Mariners Vs Oakland Athletics 7-6 Take me out to the ballpark!!! The main reason for my visit to Seattle was to go to a Major League Baseball match, and today I witnessed the Seattle Mariners Vs Oakland Athletics at Safeco Field. What a match…

  • Friday 5 August 2006 Highlights: None What a big day travelling, first I had to get from Victoria to Vancouver via ferry and bus.   They I caught a Skytrain to the Central Train station to them catch a Greyhound bus to Seattle.   I just made my connection on Greyhound, missing what have meant…

  • Friday 4 August 2006 Highlights: Beautiful Butchart Gardens, British Columbia Legislative building Today is the last full day of the tour and the only event I had on the agenda was a visit to the Butchart Gardens.   These gardens were established on the site of an old limestone mining operation by the family that…

  • Thursday 3 August 2006 Highlights: Ferry ride to Vancouver Island, Murals at Cheainus Some of our group managed to see a bear during their early morning walk, I doubt now that I’ll see one however that not a big deal for me having seen some in Europe. Today with left Whistler and headed for British…

  • Wednesday 2 August 2006 Highlights: Grand views of Nature at Whistler Not really a big day, we come into Whistler around 4.00 pm after a lengthy bus drive of over 9 hours to see the resort town that will be the home of the 2010 Winter Olympics.   This is mostly a town for the…