Yeah, I agree all around. We did the Denman walk in the rain ... but had a great time! There's so
many little shops, restaurants and pubs to pop into you can't help but have fun. (I think Robson
street would be a good rainy day choice too - any street with 2 Starbucks at the SAME corner can't
be too bad!)
http://www.walkvancouver.com/Robson/index.html
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"Bill Van" <
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> In article <
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> "Mike O'Sullivan" <
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>
> > Excellent Bill. I shall pop round the corner from the Sylvia Hotel as
soon
> > as I arrive in June. Sunny then?
>
> Hmmm. Perhaps. It's partly sunny here in the West End of Vancouver this (Tuesday) morning, but it
> can rain any time at all around here. Rain forest, you know.
>
> June is more likely to be rainy than sunny, say my 22 years here. But you can get lucky. And there
> are worse places than the vicinity of the Sylvia on a rainy June day.
>
> Most years, our best (i.e. sunniest) weather is from Folk Festival weekend in mid-July until the
> end of September.
>
> But our weather patterns are a bit screwy this year. We had a very dry, warm winter, apparently a
> result of the El Nino effect on Pacific Ocean currents. That dissipated around the beginning of
> March, and it has been rather rainy ever since. But the temperature has been rising for the past
> week and there has bit a bit less rain, or so it seems to me. So who knows when we'll get summer
> this year, and how sunny it will be?
>
> The good thing is, this place works rain or shine. Best way to be here for the shine is to
> live here.
>
> cheers.
>
> (another) bill
>
> >
> > "Bill" <
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> > > NEW Denman Street Walk:
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> > >
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