Vancouver babyyyy

Well, I never got to write anything about Vancouver so here there is a little bit…

“Vancouver er som den beste byen noensinne, er det nesten som Skandinavia, så rik og grønt!" after a four hour bus ride from Seattle that was one of the first things we were met by. A Norwegian lady saw the five confused Danish chicks walking dumbly with trolleys, umbrellas, and huge maps and became our rescue. Besides that she kept on saying something like Vancouver was a much better city than Seattle and quite wealthy, which was something we definitely came to question shortly after. Vancouver was indeed a very beautiful city and it did resemble Denmark a lot but I had not expected to see so many homeless pot-smoking people. Everywhere we went even outside the huge shopping centers people were huddled into blankets and begging for leftovers or money. It is quite complex to comprehend that a well-educated, wealthy and developed nation as Canada has such a huge gap between rich and poor and of cause it touched us. So we decided at a point to give a sandwich to one of the homeless people we passed. However, when we passed him later, the sandwich was laying next to him completely untouched…

Unfortunatly God had decided that this should be the most rainy weekend of the year (or at least it felt like that!), which signified that we all weekend was strolling around in pools. Therefore we didn’t get to go hiking as planned but in stead we wandered around in Vancouver and it was actually a quite great city with plenty of tower blocks and loads of fast-food shops! Starbucks had basically taken over the town!

One of the days we ate breakfast in one of the hotels, in which we were able to see the view over Vancouver, super beautiful as you see!

On our way home we were again confronted with American security. It took us like an hour to get through security at the border and we all had to show passports and hand in all our food… Americans just don’t like strangers, huh? J