Having just opened in the early 2010’s, Chihuly Gardens and Glass is one of the newest additions to the already iconic Seattle Centre. Sharing a site with classics such as the Space Needle and the Museum of Pop Culture, the gardens and its fragile exhibits are not inferior to its Read more
Some of us plan ahead and I like to imagine myself as someone who lives life with a certain degree of forethought. There are summers where I plan out my academic and career path, winters where I plan summer holidays, but as far as planning goes it never gets past Read more
As beautiful as the Niagara Falls may be, the price of beauty is $20. I wouldn’t risk parking at the $12 lots just up the slope though because whenever you have to walk down to see the falls you’ll always have to hike back up to get your car. At Read more
Think Frank Sinatra, think Audrey Hepburn – New York, New York is the city of legends. Heck, I was singing Moon River to myself in the echo chamber of Grand Central Terminal! Yes, NYC is an expensive city to visit but there are ways to get around the expenses for Read more
I’ve been to Victoria when I was 9, but I don’t really remember too much from that visit so I decided to go again. Some tour company charged $150 for a day trip to Victoria from Vancouver by ferry, but I managed to do more for just $119.98, here’s how… Read more
On July 1st, 2018, TransLink BC has a Canada Day present for residents of Greater Vancouver – a neat fare increase. With this fare increase, a 2-zone monthly pass will cost $128 (up from $126) , and a 3-zone monthly pass will cost $174 (up from $172). With other costs Read more
Every morning at 8:30am the journalism professor would ask us to bring up interesting stories from the past 24 hours. Today, Anthony Bourdain died and the Beckhams were falsely rumoured to be planning a divorce. This got me thinking: is entertainment news actually news? I was fascinated by late president Read more
On my American cross-country road trip the first long stop I made was in Minneapolis with Emily and her husband Ben. I met Emily back in 2014 in a university small group when she was an exchange student. Having moved out to a nice neighborhood and gotten married she’s light Read more
I’ve always wanted to board a West Coast Express train ever since I found out that Vancouver had a commuter railway. But only having five trains a day in each direction made it hard to catch, especially when I lived in Vancouver instead of out east. So one day, I Read more
Although the VPL has dozens of branches all over the city, my favorite location is the central library in downtown Vancouver. You might have noticed that I have an affinity for libraries having visited the Peabody Library, the Grimm Zentrum, and the Library of Congress on several occasions The central Read more