This past weekend was the 32nd Annual Pacific Rim Kite Festival which is held by the BCKA which is also known as the British Columbia Kitefliers Association. If you were out and about in the downtown core of Vancouver and made your way over to English Bay you might have seen a bunch of kites being flown over at Vanier Park including one massive white kite that Robyn dubbed ‘Falkor’[wiki].

The Pacific Rim Kite Festival is a two …

I was on a walk around the downtown core of Vancouver when I started hearing people cheer. Little did I know what was coming up as I was approaching Robson Street from Thurlow. Suddenly nude, yes naked, cyclists just started riding by, one after the other along Robson. Everyone cheering and screaming as about a hundred nude cyclists rode on past one of the busiest tourist streets of Vancouver.

A quick look on the internet when I got back to Robyn’s …

The other day while in English Bay with Robyn I noticed that there were signs posted explaining the upcoming road closures in the Vancouver West End which will affect traffic and residents quite a bit between the dates June 5th 2008 to June 9th 2008. The reason for these closures is for the upcoming 2008 ITU BG Triathlon World Championships in Vancouver.

The International Triathlon Union (ITU) is a not-for-profit group (founded in 1989 in Avignon, France) and world …