Vancouver is a beautiful city. Peter and Gesine's home looks out across English Bay to the high rise buildings downtown. The bay runs due east and at sunset the rays of the setting sun shines from the Pacific Ocean straight up the bay to set the mirrored skyscrapers afire with a rosy glow. We were blessed with good weather - bright sunshine with fluffy clouds - while we were there and the sunset also illuminated the drifting swathes of mist descending from the snow capped mountains. Really beautiful.
Becky and I were treated to a tour of Vancouver highlights, which included a drive around Stanley Park and a trip to Granville Market. One of the more unusual sights was a pile of sulphur waiting for shipment to China for manufacturing sulphuric acid. It is truly canary yellow and brought back fond memories of high school chemistry. Granville Market lived up to expectations with a fabulous array of jams, cheeses, pates, fruits and sausages from around the world.
The raison d'etre for the trip was to play chamber music from Peter's extensive library. As Becky was also staying we only needed a fourth to make up a quartet and Peter invited a series of local friends to join us throughout the weekend. I kept having to pinch myself to remember I was in a foreign country; rolling through on the train you don't get the same sense of crossing a border that you do when you fly.
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