Go Canada Go is alive and well. The sun is out, the snow is holding up and the host nation is winning medals: 2 golds now, 3 silver and 1 bronze. A “take it easy day” is called for with 4-days of 5am starts coming-up for the daily haul up to Whistler and some snow-based sport.
Listen up Sydney-based readers: Granville Island, Vancouver is what the former railway carriage works site in Eveleigh could have been but for a dithering Government. A former industrial site, the Island is now home to a thriving community of artists, performers and theatres, small businesses and a produce market that gets the digestive juices flowing. This place buzzes in a most pleasant way every day (this is my third visit over several years), being the Olympics there is an extra buzz and a good mid-week crowd. Easily accessible by foot, bike, car or, fittingly, by ferry – cute little 10 people boats that chug back and forth across False Creek adding colour to the calming waterfront. Fortified by excellent coffee (try Origins Organic Coffee) and scrumptious cakes from numerous patisseries, rounded off by a beer from Granville Brewery’s delicious range and very pleasant day (and evening) can be spent on Granville Island visiting a stimulating variety of galleries, workshops and speciality outlets.
Whilst it would have been easy to have stayed on Granville Island for an evening beer, the world premier of Laurie Anderson’s new work “Delusion” was far too big a temptation. If Granville Island had been gentle and relaxing, this was challenging, deep and engrossing. Anderson’s storytelling is so sad that you could cry, her music so full of energy you want to shout with joy – an artistic Olympian without doubt.
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