Vancouver Rain

So.. here's an update!

Weather-wise, we've had one nice'ish day (Sunday 1st June), but since then it's been pretty miserable. Everyone has been saying how they had a late Spring and that it should fine up soon, but I'm still not expecting to bust out the leopard print Mankini.

The last couple of days has been spent battling the jet lag-induced motivational crises and doing administrative things like opening a bank account, getting Social Insurance Numbers (like TFNs), mobile phone access etc. Canada is behind Australia in both banking and mobile infrastructure by .. I'd say 5+ years.

Food. We're right in the downtown area of the city, so we think we might not be seeing the best Vancouver has to offer, but the food offerings have been disappointing. It's almost certainly a case of not knowing where to go, but not surprisingly there is a strong US influence here and there are heaps of chains/franchises selling gross plastic food.

We did stumble into this one place called Urban Fare, and it was pretty impressive. It was like a bigger, better version of the David Jones food hall in Sydney. Check it:



Katie's been busy on the accommodation-seeking front, contacting a number of different real estate agents. We hope to tee up some inspections this week, before we head up to check out Whistler and a few other places in/around the mountains.

I've sampled a variety of Canadian beers so far and they've all been good, and served icey cold. The wares from Granville Island Brewery have been particularly delicious. I'll probably find out later that real Canadian blokes think it's girly beer.

I've got a meeting tomorrow morning with an IT recruiter guy, so hopefully soon I'll have some idea of what I'll be doing work-wise. Katie's gonna get on to the job seeking in a week or so.

That's all my tired (and admittedly hung over) brain can come up with at the moment.



PEAS!