The Boys

Lunch

The artist off to work (outside the Vancouver Art Gallery)

Oi!

Mmmmm Hot chocolate

More of the Boys by Joe

Not many of our pics I’ve made that you can open up in a larger pic, but these are so cool, click on the pic and the higher res bigger image will open up.

The Boys by Joe

All images by Joe Sales, our Canadian buddie who spent the last 6 months in Dunedin NZ. We spent the morning down at Spanish Banks and Vanier Park in Vancouver. The temp was about 5°C and as you can see there was plenty of frost about and the sky was a stunning blue.
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Whistler

Hey all.
Making the most of an offer of a car for the weekend from some friends, we headed off up to Whistler for the day.

Not the most stylish of people on the hill today, still cool.

Granville Island

You guys may have noticed that Granville Island gets a lot of mention on this travelblog.
There are several very simple reasons for that…

Canadian trees are whimps.

So the weather forecasters on the TV were all in a tizz over the storm that was heading our way for today Monday.

UpDate: The papers and tv weather people can’t stop talking about the storm that hit us Monday??? What storm, there were winds in town here around 70-90km, sure inland and up [...]

Becks appeal – Warning Nudity!!!

I was among one of the 48,000 people that made their way to BC Place Stadium last night to see Beckham play against the Vancouver Whitecaps.

(thanks http://www.flickr.com/photos/rightantler/1913586125/)

On the whole the game was as expected a little disappointing, except that the Vancouver Whitecaps dominated nearly every aspect of the game and blew two golden opportunities to [...]

Diary of a preschooler

Hi everyone, Jamie here. These are my preschool photos. Mum said I should tell you a bit about preschool. So here goes. My school is called Lluvia, which sounds like ‘u-vee-a’ when you say it out loud. It means ‘rain’ in Spanish. I asked mum why they would call my preschool ‘rain’, and she said I [...]

Jamie to the rescue!!

We had two power cuts in the apartment block today. The first, this afternoon, was just a bit of fun. The second, this evening, about five minutes before Jamie was supposed to go to bed, was rather more dramatic. Turns out that the emergency lighting in the halls is non-existent; we had one of the [...]

Photo Art?

Finally getting the chance to play around with some of the cool apps that are on my laptop, and am having a ball of a time with Adobe Lightbox.