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Monthly Archives: April 2014

Lunch with friends

28 Monday Apr 2014

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Today Hank and WIlma visited us, to plan some renovations we need to do, and to have lunch together. Hank, who has a better memory than me, recalled that when we last had lunch together at the end of 1981 we ate carrot soup, had small children and a lot of hair. Guess what we had today, by chance again – carrot soup. When we looked at each other though, we noticed that a few other things had changed ever so slightly. Anyhow, it was great catching up with old friends!

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Killer Joe

27 Sunday Apr 2014

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On Friday we went to an interesting theater show at the Italian Cultural Center, or more precisely to a trailer park at the back corner of their parking lot. The show Killer Joe is about a Texan dysfunctional family that lives in a trailer and is trying to get some money. The setup was very realistic, i.e. a trailer, and the 30 odd visitors were lined up along the living room wall watching the show. Very interesting and innovative.

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Jazz in Vancouver

16 Wednesday Apr 2014

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1789 was an interesting year in history (mutiny on the Bounty!), and also is the street address on Comox Street (and name) of a local restaurant that started offering jazz evenings on Tuesday. So yesterday evening we enjoyed very nice music, good food and got a taster for the Vancouver Jazz Festival coming up in June (click here to see my comment on last year´s event).

A sunny day in Vancouver

12 Saturday Apr 2014

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We had a busy week with setting up stuff, shopping, meeting friends and I attended a seminar at the SFU Faculty of Health Sciences for a full day (long time since I had done something like this!). Today we took it easy though. I went shopping on Granville Island in the morning, and this involves a ten minute walk on the beach (see picture), a short ferry ride, some wandering around on Granville Island as there are always a lot of boats coming in and out and there is an active boat yard there. After picking some fish and vegetable I returned and made lunch: baked halibut.

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Settling in

06 Sunday Apr 2014

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We are busy settling into life here again, setting up phones and Wi-Fi as well as dealing with some of the administrative issues involved in setting up again after a long absence. Yesterday was rainy, so it was a good time to get on with this kind of stuff. Last night we went to a cabaret show with eight musicians from Luxemburg and Quebec, rendering a modern and quite interesting interpretation of songs written to music from Kurt Weill. Today we went to church, had a nice Cuban lunch and as the weather was better, walked in the rain forest and on the shore in Lighthouse Park. We enjoy the diversity of Vancouver!

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We are in Vancouver now

04 Friday Apr 2014

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Now that Blue Raven is sold, we will use this blog and plan to post occasional updates. The weather here is still a little cool, but the last two days were beautiful and sunny. To see where we are, click here.

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