We got from YVR to the downtown apartment using the SkyTrain monorail. It took about 25 minutes to get to the apartment which is in the Electra Building, a 1950s high-rise glass building which is influenced by Art Deco and has been converted from offices to cool apartments.

Over the next few days we took time to relax as we’d done a lot of travelling. We wondered around Vancouver, did a bit of shopping (picked myself up a Canadian Olympic hoodie and Hudson Bay blanket).

The city seems so tidy, clean, full of energy. And everyone is so polite!