“Vancouver is a few years behind when it comes to tea” Pedro Villalon tells me as I sat down at his O5 Tea Bar in Kitsilano late November. The charismatic Mexican-born tea hunter starts to mix me a drink as he elaborates …
SkyscraperPage: Flâneurs of the world, unite!
My Twitter profile says I’m a Vancouver “flâneuse”. A flâneuse is the feminine version of the French word flâneur, a term popularized in the the 19th century to describe a man of leisure who’d anonymously stroll the streets of Paris …
MAPfrappe: The Geography Nerd’s Best Friend
As an unabashed geography nerd, it absolutely delights me to share with you my recent finding: MAPfrappe. The concept? Using Google Maps, you can draw an outline of one part of the world (ex: the outline of Vancouver Island) and …
Snow in Vancouver, the perpetual guessing game
Check out the current weather forecast for this Sunday… Whether it’s actually going to snow? Who knows. With snow on my mind, I went looking through my photos on my Flickr account to see if I uploaded any good snow shots of …
Hello Voyager 1, it’s Pale Blue Dot
Early this morning I learned that NASA’s Voyager 1 entered a “new realm” at the edge of the Solar System that they hadn’t anticipated or predicted existing. They’ve named this zone the “magnetic highway” and it’s basically the last layer of the …
Forage: Robson Street’s Newest Restaurant
Update: Forage has closed on November 24, 2024 after 12 years in operation. You can read about the reason behind the closure, here. Robson Street’s famous for its retail chain shopping and perhaps even its authentic Asian restaurants. But what …
Commercial Drive’s Autumn Colours
Autumn is so fleeting in Vancouver that you have to act quickly if you want to catch the fall foliage at its peak before the winter rains set in and wash it all away. Not that Vancouver’s renowned for its …