{"id":630,"date":"2007-11-27T03:16:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T03:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2007\/11\/27\/around-vancouver\/"},"modified":"2008-06-28T13:22:25","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T13:22:25","slug":"around-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2007\/11\/27\/around-vancouver\/","title":{"rendered":"Around Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been getting out of Vancouver a bit over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday Mo (another former Nigerian VSO) collected me and we took the ferry across to the Sunshine Coast.  A friend of hers has a house there, where we spent Saturday night.  We had a couple of nice meals, wandered around a bit and caught up on all the news since we last saw each other in Nigeria.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Canada\/Vancouver\/MoAtGibsons_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Canada\/Vancouver\/MoAtGibsons_t.jpg\" title=\"Mo standing at the end of the jetty at Gibsons.\" alt=\"Mo standing in front of a body of water, mountains in the background.\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Canada\/Vancouver\/IncomingFerry_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Canada\/Vancouver\/IncomingFerry_t.jpg\" title=\"The incoming ferry (Queen of Surrey) from the terminal at Langdale.\" alt=\"Sea and mountains, in the distance a white ferry is coming towards the camera.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today Dugly and I took a fairly long trip for a bath.  In the forests near <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harrison.ca\/\">Harrison<\/a>, along various rough logging tracks there&#8217;s a lovely little hot spring, undeveloped apart from some hot tubs and decking.  It was lovely sitting in the hot water and looking out at the trees and snow-topped mountains.  The way back was less relaxing, various traffic holdups and torrential rain.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Canada\/Vancouver\/DuglyAndLandRoverAtClearCreek_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Canada\/Vancouver\/DuglyAndLandRoverAtClearCreek_t.jpg\" title=\"Dugly with his Land Rover.\" alt=\"Dugly stands in front of a mud spattered Land Rover Discovery.  Snow lies on the ground and there are trees all around.\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Canada\/Vancouver\/HotTubAtClearCreek_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Canada\/Vancouver\/HotTubAtClearCreek_t.jpg\" title=\"One of the hot tubs at Clear Creek.\" alt=\"A large wooden tub, full of clear steaming water sits among rocks and trees.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been getting out of Vancouver a bit over the weekend. On Saturday Mo (another former Nigerian VSO) collected me and we took the ferry across to the Sunshine Coast. A friend of hers has a house there, where we spent Saturday night. We had a couple of nice meals, wandered around a bit and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3,25,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-friends","category-rtw","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}