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Groose & Crown Mountains

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If you live in North/West Vancouver, to get to the mountain might take you 30 minutes walk. If you come from downtown, the sea bus, and another bus, it’s 45 minutes. To go up there are 3 options, I took the worse one, of joggers. There were so many people, that after taking a short break, we had to wait for the chain of people to pass.

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After climbing 800 meters in almost 1 hour and a half with backpacks. You can see the bay, Stanley park as a insula, and West Vancouver in front of us.

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Selfie with a deer, in the ski and paragliding area. That day we just got a little further to put the hammock into the woods.

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Canada, Generous hosts from the street, Vancouver

Synchronicité

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Je suis arrivée à Vancouver, après un trajet magnifique en bus: 15h entre les crêtes découpées des Rocheuses, les rivières à l’eau cristalline et les lacs que j’appelle mers.

La ville est très étendue mais pas si dense: il y a peut-être 1 million d’habitants dans la ville même et 2 millions 5 avec la banlieue. Ce qui est frappe de prime abord c’est la nature tellement présente: la montagne ET l’océan si proche. La ville est bordée de nombreuses plages de sable, de parcs (notamment le Stanley park ou on trouve des cèdres centenaires immenses) et de bâtiments pas trop moches pour une grande ville… Peu de gratte-ciels et des quartiers très mixtes à tout point de vue: en général, chaque district est construit autour d’une artère commerciale et quadrillée de rues d’habitations: grandes maisons, jolis jardins, potagers et petits immeubles. Continue reading Synchronicité →

Canada, Vancouver

friendly people

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I was going to hike in Groose Mountain, at a 40 minutes bus distance from Samuel’s place. I saw someone training alone at tennis. I thought that for sure he has another racket, so I might play some tennis. I was right. Dominique is 21 years old, and a lot of his services put the ball into the net that I had difficulties to get back the ball. He lives 2 minutes from the tennis court. He beat me really bad, but we had some very good exchanges.

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He had spoken with a friend to hike to Groose mountain, so it was perfect. I join them and we went on a not marked trail.

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