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Vancouver: A Very Welcoming City

October 29, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

A New Favorite Hotel and Perhaps a New Favorite City When we made our plans for visiting this lovely city (which we had visited in 2014 for a professional conference), we chose the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, falling in with the Fairmont chain just as we had done for Toronto and Victoria. And as I say, …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, Journal, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, Vancouver (Architecture)

Crossing Canada by Train (4)

October 19, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

Day Four (Saturday): On to Vancouver, With a Festive (And Very Personal) Final Evening Oddly enough, not much to write about as The Canadian rolled through British Columbia and made its way to Vancouver. At this point, the journey was not particularly visual, so no photographs. But we all had a good time talking and …

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Filed Under: Journal, Music, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Caro mio ben (song), Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, Giordani (Giuseppe), The Roadside Fire (song), Vaughan Williams (Ralph)

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