Hello from Vancouver
Tuesday, August 30th, 2005I arrived to Vancouver, Canada in Sunday it was a long flight from Copenhagen-Amsterdan-Vancouver. Plane was old; you know those planes where you don’t have TV on front of your seat but one big 10 meters from you. 
Though, KLM service was good, so it wasn’t so bad in the end. I even manage to sleep a little.
I’m first time in Canada. (In fact first time in North-America). Vancouver is very beautiful city with spectacular nature surrounding the city. I am staying now in West-Vancouver about ~20km from the city. I just remembered how bad my English is now that I am visiting in the country where people actually speak English as their mother-language. I guess I have been too much in situations where I have to speak English to non-English speaking person. Well, anyway this is good practice. 
Here come my first feelings after 2 days.
Things I like in Vancouver:
1. People. Very friendly
2. Nature. Lot’s of warter, green forest and mountains
3. Beer. I taste really good beer. But now I cannot remember the name :-/
4. Dose. Free magazine I picked up on the street.
5. Vibe. Vancouver has this “Vibe” I like, it’s a cool city.
6. Whistler
7. SoMa
8. Cafe’s
Things I don’t like in Vancouver:
1. Public Transportation. They say it’s the best in America but it could be a lot better. Metro would be nice. I found sky train
2. Tipping. I don’t like tipping, it makes me feel guilty. “Did I give enough was it too much…” If food costs 5 dollars I don’t want to pay 5 dollars+15%. I expect to pay 5 dollars.
3. Time zones… Why Canada is far away
4. Taxes top of the prices. If latte costs $2.99 final price is something like 3.14 because prices are without taxes. How annoying.
I have been waiting new Xbox to replace that horrible looking black+neon-green xbox but ever since PS3 was launched I change my mind. PS3 is going to be in my livingroom. I have also been a bit disapointed on Xbox. Mainly because of the reason I bought xbox over ps2. Games… Maybe it’s just because once you have other console then it feels that all good games are in the other. I really though that xbox has more and better games but that is not true at all… For example GTA, I almost bought PS2 next to Xbox just because of GTA was only for that last year. In Xbox you get Halo, which is a nice game if you play with keyboard and mouse, but with Xbox controls I didn’t liked much. Only nice game which is available only in xbox (I think) is Fable.
