I had a safe but exhausting trip. After 19 hours of taking the bus/train, waiting on airports, queueing, sitting in uncomfortable planes and finally taking the train and looking for my hostel I finally arrived at The Cambie Hostel which will be my home for the next days. Intelligent as I am I managed to lose my keycard within 5 minutes after getting it which was when I decided that I propably should go to sleep. I just had a short walk into town to get some food and have a look around. But, after 24 hours awake, the attention span is not the best so I gave up and went home. Now, at 4:15 local time I've been wide awake for one hour. Haha, I hope I will get over this jet lag before getting to Kamloops =)
So, as I just went around town for 20 minutes I can't really tell you anything about Vancouver yet. But here are my first expressions of Canada: Mountains and Maple Leaves. When landing on Vancouver Airport you feel like you are in the middle of the alps. I knew that there were mountains next to Vancouver but I didn't expect this. Unfortunately I sat in the middle of the plane so I couldn't take a picture, but I'll try to take one from town or when I fly to Kamloops. As for the maple leaves. They are everywhere! Siriously! On Flags, on walls, on pictures, on every building, on every sign, on every piece of paper produced in Canada. I even found a real one in my room. (they do have maple trees here too).
Anyways, I will try to get some sleep now so that I won't fall asleep at 9 P.M. again this evening.
Here's a picture of Canadian Self-Centered Humor:
Additional note: For those of you who read this before, sorry for all the mistakes. Maybe blogging in the middle of the night isn't such a good idea after all.
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Yaweeh! Seems as if Canadians are a quite good-humoured folk (and I mean that literally after having seen the jokes).
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uuuuh the picture is indeed brilliant! :D Where did you find it? Looks somewhat like a collection of magnets? (not quite sure whether magnet = Magnet? :D)
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