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The Fish Shack opens on Granville Street, Vancouver

Update: The Fish Shack closed permanently in March 2018 after five and a half years of operation. I wrote these first impressions after their media launch in October 2012. Vancouver’s Glowbal Group opened their latest restaurant on Wednesday evening to …

updated on January 27, 2023October 25, 20120 Comment on The Fish Shack opens on Granville Street, Vancouver
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Richmond Night Market

The Richmond Night Market finally closes this weekend, and because it’s the Thanksgiving long weekend, they’ll be open Friday, Saturday, Sunday as well as Monday. If you haven’t been to the night market this summer, now is your last chance to go! …

updated on January 26, 2023October 4, 20120 Comment on Richmond Night Market
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Tasting Plates Vancouver, Kitsilano – two girls attempt 10 restaurants in 3 hours

Last week on Wednesday my colleague Dana and I joined dozens of other food enthusiasts in Kitsilano for the second-ever Tasting Plates Vancouver, a culinary event put on by food blogger Richard Wolak, better known online as Vancouver Foodster. For …

updated on January 14, 2025September 19, 20120 Comment on Tasting Plates Vancouver, Kitsilano – two girls attempt 10 restaurants in 3 hours
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Why I love the Moore Hotel in Seattle

I’ve stayed at the Warwick, the W, the Holiday Inn, and at El Gaucho, yet I always come back to the Moore Hotel. I recently stayed here for two nights last weekend, my fifth time at the hotel over the …

updated on April 11, 2022August 20, 20121 Comment on Why I love the Moore Hotel in Seattle
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A weekend in Seattle for GeekGirlCon ’12 – Friday night

Last weekend I was in Seattle to attend the second ever GeekGirlCon – a convention that “celebrates and honors the legacy of women contributing to science and technology; comics, arts, and literature; and game play and game design by connecting geeky women world-wide and …

updated on April 11, 2022August 19, 20121 Comment on A weekend in Seattle for GeekGirlCon ’12 – Friday night
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Robyn Hanson

Storyteller, nature nerd, food lover, and former tourism professional living south of Vancouver at the mouth of the Fraser River in xʷməθkʷəy̓əm territory.

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BCRobyn is the personal blog of Robyn Hanson, a fourth-generation Vancouverite now living on the Sunshine Coast. Find travel tips and musings of life in British Columbia through a lifelong local’s perspective.

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