Tandem tantrum

Much darker skies overhead this morning. Breakfast in the apartment before heading down to the park to do some more pull ups. There was a tramp on the rings so I contented myself swinging around on the childrens assault course! Caught the bus into town and wandered along Robson to the start of Stanley park.

They have this amazing chain of wholefood deli shops called capers. Incredible organic and healthy foods within. We have started eating there to combat aforementioned engorgment. Had a wrap from there and hired a tandem.

Stanley park is an amazing thing. think of a peninsula of land, with the most high rise bit of the city occupying most of it - this is downtown Vancouver. The city extends round onto the land either side of the peninsula too, in fact, that is just the centre district. Anyway, the tip of the penis is Stanley park, which is billed as a taste of wilderness in an urban setting. Well, maybe if you had earplugs in and had been taking mushrooms. If you consider bingham park a taste of the peak district then you get the idea. Anyway, its about 11km around the sea wall, and wobbling slightly on our new steed, we quest off around the park. Very pleasant. On getting back to the start you can follow trails through the middle of the park, so we do. It quickly becomes clear that our tandem is intended for tarmac use only. Its ok going up, but coming down again the tyres strain on the rims, and after a particularly enthusiastic descent we puncture our back tyre. Ah well, this at least secures us a discount.

Bus back home as both are tired. Don't know what we will do for tea tonight. Might go and get a salad from that capers place again!

One last thing - I don't get how intersections work. When there's lights and you are on red its still ok to turn right I think, and if you are going left then I think you pass on the wrong side of an oncoming left turner or something. Its wierd. And when there are no lights, its first person to the line who has priority. On the subject of transport, the buses here have a better charging model than we do. Rather than buying a ticket on each and every bus you travel on, you get one ticket that allows you 90 minutes of travel on any bus you like. Which is handy if you keep getting on the wrong ones.