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I'm very glad to have been able to make repeat trips to Vancouver, because this one's making me feel a lot better about most of things I complained about last time. I deliberately went to different parts of town, and in both districts where I've spent any time (Main Street between Queen Elizabeth Park and Broadway-dunno what that area's called-and ( Read more... )

We're going back to Vancouver later this week. I'm looking forward to it, but also mindful of the things I didn't like last time. I know that a few of my readers know the place a lot better than I do, so while I'm thinking about this do any of you have recommendations for the following?

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Melinda and I got back from a few days in Vancouver, and I have to say I'm a little underwhelmed. It is in many ways a great city, but it's de rigeur for Seattleites to go there and come back with an enormous complex about how much better everything is there than here, and against that high expectation it was a little disappointing. I came back ( Read more... )

The world needs more tea houses that provide the kind of good quality tea that takes well to repeated steepings, and give you hot water free. Especially ones that are full of pretty trinkets, have a charming friendly waiter who knows the person I'm supposed to be meeting here, and have meditative music in the background. Oh, and where they know ( Read more... )