If visiting Vancouver, make sure you take the time to walk around Stanley Park – it’s a beautiful spot that really shows the best of this place with its stunning mountains and ocean setting. Some basic tips:
- The park itself is big – more than 10 times the area of New York’s Central Park – so I’d suggest renting some bikes for getting to see all the spots.
- Make sure you check out the seawall path – which you can now take bikes on. I used to go running around there most days, and you often can’t even see the city – amazing considering how close it is.
- Granville Island – towards the end of the day, start to leave the park and head along the south shore past English Bay and Sunset Beach (for the great sunsets) and to Granville Island where there is a market and, even better, Granville Island brewery where make your way through the different varieties until it closes around 8pm.