Vancouver

This is an attractive place to live.  There is all the amenity of a city, but it is spaced out with a lot of residential buildings in the centre, easy access,to the hinterland and less traffic than one might have expected - or maybe it's that it seems to keep moving.  Also they have no trams - but trolley busses!  Float planes like these are overhead all the time.

Like Auckland, there is harbour all around and so there are lots of recreational boats and boatyards, but the old dockyard area has been regenerated to provide an attractive docklands area.

Stanley Park provides a huge green space in the middle of all this which we got around on bicycles and found these Indian totem poles which were reminiscent of Maori art in New Zealand.  Cheery looking lot of faces, aren't they?