Bloedel Floral Conservatory atop Queen Elizabeth Park
Sitting atop the highest point in Vancouver is the triodetic dome of the Bloedel Floral Conservatory, one of Vancouver’s most popular attractions and the city’s only “garden under glass.”
Part of Queen Elizabeth Park, the Conservatory sees over 6 million visitors a year and is one of my favourite things about the park.
I’m always on the hunt for the best shopping spots in the city. Yaletown is well-known for their collection of fabulous restaurants and patios, but it’s also a retail hot spot. I picked out a few of my favourites.
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Yaletown Shops
As promised last week, here’s the photo of the good sports who made Wreck Beach part of the Guinness World Record for Simultaneous Skinnydipping in North America.
Congrats you guys!
In case you hadn’t heard, Vancouver will be hosting a pretty big event in 6 months time. Now, we haven’t come close to seeing all the results of that particular project, but more and more of the venues, celebration sites, and buildings are being completed (or close to), and many are being opened up to the public.
One of those venues, and perhaps one of the most impressive to built, is the Richmond Olympic Oval. This will be the speed skating venue, and is a pretty incredible building of wood and stone and ice.
I’m so happy that the HSBC Celebration of Light fireworks competition is back on this summer—Can you believe it was almost canceled?! What kind of summer would it be without the fireworks?!—that I feel like staking out my place on English Bay Beach right now.
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Summer Fireworks: HSBC Celebration of Light July 22 – August 1
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