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Mountain View  Vancouver is a city of neighbourhoods they say. I am not sure who "they" are, but "they" are right. One of the nicest and most under appreciated is the Mountain View neighbourhood. Mountain View is a loosely defined area either side of Fraser St from about King Edward Ave. up to E. 41st. The name ...

Mountain Equipment Co-op is hosting Paddlefest this Sunday at Ambleside Park in West Vancouver. As a lifelong kayaker this event caught my eye. Assuming the weather is nice, and what  big assumptoin that is these days, this sounds like a great day at the beach for all ages from singles to families with kids. MEC says: This is a ...

I am trying to get back on the bad MLS photo thing so today I bring you a selection of bad photos from the Vancouver MLS® to feast your eyes upon.                         Please force you flash to go on when shooting towards the ...

There is so much to do at this time of year and that is not to mention all the tedious gift buying and working and ....  blah blah blah. So what I've got today are a series of fun things to do around Vancouver this Christmas-time. Late last week the fam and I went out to Bright Lights in Stanley Park to see the lights, ...

I will start this Fun Friday post off with some gratuitous efforts to win Miss604's bloggisversary contest. I only started reading Miss604's blog a couple of months ago, but its really a great one and she has been at it for four years now. To celebrate she is having a contest and to win I have to link to her blog (check) and a few ...

Earlier this week in the Raincity Guide out of Seattle I read a story about exploding hot water tanks. Actually they seem to call them "water heaters" in the U.S. I had never heard this before. I had also never heard that there is an urban myth that a faulty hot water tank can explode and shoot through the roof of a ...

Its seems when the weather is truly atrocious I don't feel like writing Fun on Fridays. That seems to occurring about every other week this fall. But today is nice enough and I was down on the (Granville) Island with the baby and I came across few fun things. I had a little Masala Chai at the Granville Isand Tea Co. and picked up a ...