Vancouver’s 9 O’clock Gun
Heading to Vancouver any time soon? Then be prepared for a few things that might surprise or even scare you. One of them is the sound of a gunshot every evening, at 9 PM Pacific Time. When I moved to…
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Heading to Vancouver any time soon? Then be prepared for a few things that might surprise or even scare you. One of them is the sound of a gunshot every evening, at 9 PM Pacific Time. When I moved to…
Continue readingNestled in the Alabama Hills in the California desert is a lonely looking town called Lone Pine. It sits in a landscape full of oval rock formations and it is so photogenic that Hollywood producers have made many Western movies…
Continue readingIt takes only five hours to get from Vancouver to Vancouver. Sounds weird, but it is not rocket science at all, and you don’t need a rocket to fly around the globe either. A car would be sufficient. If you…
Continue readingClose to a small town in the State of Washington, where the vampire-romance novel series Twilight is set, are the beautiful Olympic Mountains. The town is Port Angeles, hidden in the Strait of Juan de Fuca on the shore of…
Continue readingAs mentioned on this website before, Vancouver and British Columbia get more rain than any other place in Canada. They are not alone in their destiny: Washington State shares the same weather patterns. With its long rainy days, it is…
Continue readingThere is a building on Robson Street in Vancouver, close to Stanley Park, which attracts people’s attention because of its height. The Imperial Landmark Hotel is separated from other skyscrapers located several blocks away in the downtown business district. At…
Continue readingWhen people talk about Vancouver weather, it is almost always with reference to the rain. By providing selective news emphasizing rainy events, media actively contribute to a general image of Vancouver as a rainy city. But what is the reality?…
Continue readingAk pôjdete do San Francisca, určite si dajte kvety do vlasov. Ak pôjdete do San Francisca, stretnete tam príjemných ľudí. Zvláštne vibrácie, ľudia v pohybe a celá generácia s pokrokovými názormi. Tak spieva Scott McKenzie o meste na západe Spojených štátov v slnečnej Kalifornii. Scott…
Continue readingMladú Belgičanku Charisse D’hamersovú, pracujúcu v Lake Louise v kanadských Skalnatých horách, napadol v júli čierny medveď, keď si išla popoludní zabehať. Pohrýzol ju osemkrát. Tento mrazivý prípad opäť pripomenul, aké nebezpečenstvo tu na ľudí číha v letnom období, keď…
Continue readingJedny Vianoce pred pár rokmi som sa rozhodol tráviť netradične. Na konci sveta. Ak nie úplne na konci sveta, tak určite na konci Kanady, na samom západe krajiny, vo Victorii, hlavnom meste provincie Britská Kolumbia. Akoby ten koniec sveta Victorii…
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