Archive for September, 2004

Victoria I

Posted by Michael on September 8th, 2004

Yesterday evening, I arrived in Victoria. So far, I can’t tell much about the city, since I wasn’t anywhere yet. Below, just some pictures that I snapped yesterday evening.

Tofino III – The Car

Posted by Michael on September 8th, 2004

Since I got more than one request on this, I took a picture of my rental car. Here it is. It’s a pretty nice, new, Pontiac Grand Am that sports a turning circle of a medium-sized truck, but hey, it’s got all the niceties, like A/C, a good stereo, cruise control, automated everything, so why [...]

Tofino II

Posted by Michael on September 6th, 2004

Discovering greatness in greyness

I’m in Tofino

Posted by Michael on September 5th, 2004

Friday, it was time for me to pack my bags and get my sorry city-slicker ass onto Vancouver Island, as I read somewhere, the “concentrate of Canada”, everything in terms of landscape a tourist would expect.

Vancouver Part III – The Lost Days

Posted by Michael on September 5th, 2004

I have been busy, enjoying Vancouver to the utmost, so I didn’t have that much time to blog. Let me make up with a concentrate of my experiences in Vancouver. First of all, I naturally was partially occupied by the conference, but I did have enough time to see quite a bit of Vancouver, which, [...]

Vancouver Part II

Posted by Michael on September 5th, 2004

Today is monday. Normally, that’s not exactly my favorite day of the
week (CUE: BOOMTOWN RATS, I DON’T LIKE MONDAYS), but of course, when
you’re on holidays (pardon me, on a meeting I was meaning to say), it’s
not all that bad.