Various – Rock & Pop Jukebox Shuffleplay
Last day of the holiday and we slept in till around 8 so a little late for breakfast...
Today, two new couples at the table – one from Japan and one from Hong Kong – cosmopolitan...
We settled the bill with our excellent host Jenny, who'd been great throughout our stay and who now allowed us to leave our bags in the living room before heading out for our last walk down to Kitsilano...
We stopped in for a coffee at Jitters Coffee Bar just down from Zulu Records and I took a browse in the 2nd hand bookshop next door as Anne read the paper...
Then we walked on down 4th Avenue before heading up to west Broadway...
There we found a brilliant art book shop, Oscar’s Art Book Store, and I purchased a small calendar featuring works by The Group of Seven (very famous canadian artists from the 1920's onwards) while Anne picked up a book on Robert Doisneau...
Then back to Arbutus, where we stopped in at Arbutus Coffee for the last time...
Anne proclaimed their Raspberry and Blueberry Muffins to be the best “in the world” – high praise indeed – I enjoyed a strawberry scone...
We completed the circuit by returning to the now open Zulu Records where I bought another highly touted Canadian disc, “LP” by the delightfully named Holy F*ck...
From there it was our last walk back to the B&B to collect the bags...
We set off for the airport at 1:30pm even though we weren’t due to take off until 6:15...
We trundled the cases to the bus stop, took the 16 to Broadway, walked for one block then the bus to Airport Station where we transferred to a third bus and found ourselves at check in around 2:30...
We wandered round the airport, went through security, bought some chocolate, had our final Canadian meal from A&W Burgers and sat in the departure lounge, reading...
We boarded around 5:30 as the plane was set to leave slightly early – as it turned out it went right on time and we flew for 45 minutes to Calgary...
We spent nearly two hours on the tarmac there though, due to some nonsense with the baggage – to make matters worse we had the only two idiots on the entire plane sitting directly behind us – their incessant loud chatter, whistling, singing and drumming on the back of my seat made it impossible to sleep...
Typical Scots, sadly...
Highlight of the Day : Last visit to Arbutus Coffee and final shopping...
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