Walking in Vancouver

Two great walks these last two days. Round the delightful Stanley Park yesterday, where you follow the sea wall for around five miles round a wooded peninsular, stopping to look at lighthouses, bridges, statues and totem poles en route. And today a two hour slog up Grouse Mountain. This is known as the Grouse Grind and is very steep, mainly steps. The champions do it in about 25 minutes - but that's running and would be madness. The route down is via cable car. For today's expedition I teamed up with a fellow traveller from Altrincham who happens to be going round the world in the same direction as me and who I have seen in New York and Toronto as well as here - small world.

I have been investigating the workings of this blog and have changed two settings. One should mean that people who are followers get an alert when I add something new. Please let me know if it works. The other should mean that people with the right sort of email account (and presumably that includes all the followers) can post comments - but you may have to work out how to do this yourselves as I haven't sussed that bit out yet. If anyone works it out, let me know how it works so I can tell others.

Finally, a picture to make you smile.