A Little Town with a Big Heart

Advantages: Fantastic skiing, good snow record, great friendly atmosphere
Disadvantages: Not much on hill dining, ski hill and town are separated

...A very cool laid back town, fantastic friendly locals with an influx of "dudes" from all over. Where is it: Approx 3 hours drive South of Calgary in British Columbia in the Canadian Rockies. It is an easy drive and straightforward to find. Just before Fernie, you pass Sparwood, where you can see "Titan" the biggest truck in the world! Not sure if it still is the biggest, but it is huge, you can see if from the road, but worth a stop to appreciate the size and great for kids. This is primarily a review on Fernie as a ski town but it is also great to visit in Summer, for golfing, fishing, hillwalking and mountain biking. There are probably more, but these are the activities that I am aware of. It is mainly serviced by chair lifts, there are no gondolas and none of the chairs have the bubble style cover, so it can be very cold...

Scorpio2310 18.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of General: British Columbia

Best Little Town in British Columbia

Advantages: Charming, the pace is unhurried.
Disadvantages: I don't know?

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lilycat 14.06.2003 · Read review
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A Round Trip of British Columbia

Advantages: A range of activities, incredible landscape
Disadvantages: expensive to travel there

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7522 11.07.2004 · Read review
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British Columbia - one of THE places to visit

Advantages: Good value, magnificent scenery everywhere
Disadvantages: Long flight to get there. Not much else!

...Going for a holiday almost half-way around the earth need'nt cost the same. In Feburary of 2004 my wife and I flew Air Canada to British Columbia on the west coast of Canada for a packed ten-day holiday with a view towards seeing if we liked the area well enough to consider emigrating there. Believe it or not, it was our first trip to Canada. This sounds quite a statement for such a potentially momentous decision, but all the research I have done before hand suggested that BC had all the things we were looking for. Reasonable house prices, less pollution, less stress, beautiful setting and a people that suprisingly enough are a lot closer in attitude to us Brits than the inhabitants of the US are. (Never call a Canadian "American" as it is generally taken as an insult!!) We made the decision to visit Canada at the start of Spring. Why...

dancomp 31.08.2006 · Read review
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Review of Vancouver (Canada)

BC, the Lucky Place

Advantages: Good climate. Fine city. Lucky people
Disadvantages: Long flight.

...We went to British Columbia 2 years ago to stay with a friend in Vancouver. She was able to get some holiday, so we were able to do some touring as well. Firstly Vancouver must be just about the most civilised city I have been to - it is rumoured that US citizens have been known to visit on holiday and just not go home. It has most of what makes San Francisco a fine place - mild climate, a harbour, a bridge, a fine range of ethnic restaurants, real beer, good public transport and friendly natives. One of our trips out involved going to Victoria on Vancouver Island by ferry. Victoria is the capital of BC and houses a fine museum with a massive collection of native artefacts including totem poles. It is also a bit like a quality British seaside resort, right down to the 2nd hand UK open top double deckers for sightseeing...

BNibbles 19.12.2000 · Read review
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Bear with me...

Advantages: Stunning scenery, easy to get around
Disadvantages: food is not consistently good

.... Granville Island, actually a small peninsula underneath the Granville Street Bridge and connected to downtown, is also popular with tourists and gets very busy. It is again historically interesting, and quite British in character, with a variety of architecture, markets, galleries and theatres. Stanley Park is a pleasant place to get away from the city, while being walking distance from downtown and it houses the aquarium which is quite small, but with reasonable selection of things to see. The cute sea otters make it definitely worthwhile. Robson Street also has history running back to the late 1800s but it is less evident here. It runs through the middle of downtown and is good for shopping, restaurants, cafes and the Vancouver Art Gallery. I didn't find it as interesting as the other locations mentioned above, but then I hate shopping...

AndrewPo 17.07.2008 · Read review
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Review of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

British Gas

Advantages: gas seems fine
Disadvantages: telephone nightmare

...British Gas I felt I had to write this review after having to deal with this company for the first time and being pretty disappointed. Having moved into a new flat and coming from a flat where all the bills were included in the rent meaning never having to deal with all these companies and now having to set up all the new accounts for things such as electricity, gas and water I found this company particularly tiresome to deal with. We were meant to phone up on the day we moved in to the new flat and pass over all the readings on the meters and the correct information to set up new accounts and the such like. I had no problems at all when contacting the water supplier and the electricity supplier but when it came to the gas this was more of a problem that I could of dreamed. After phoning up the main line for British...

newby2 26.05.2007 · Read review
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An Outdoor Getaway.

Advantages: Scenery to die for and more importantly whales watching!
Disadvantages: It is hard to get around once you're there.

...I spent about a week on Vancouver Island back in 2002 during a trip to British Columbia and Washington State. I travelled alone which was an interesting experience. I am glad I did it but in honesty I would have preferred company. Vancouver Island is a beautiful place, with a long and rugged coastline, a plenthora of marine and other wildlife, topped of with a backdrop of the rocky mountains on the mainland in the distance. Heaven to the eyes. Facts about Vancouver Island ******************************************************************** Vancouver Island is situated off the West Coast of Canada and at 32,134 square kilometres it is the largest North American island in the Pacific. It is part of the province of British Columbia and has a total population of approximately 600,000. Its largest City, Victoria (population 300...

nickyturnill 15.08.2005 · Read review
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Review of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Start of one of my best travels

Advantages: scenery
Disadvantages: far away

...British Columbia BC and Alberta in the South West of Canada have the most impressing mountain landscapes, I ever have seen. The Icefield Parkway at the border BC and Alberta is called rightly the most beautiful height mountain road of the world. Every corner reveals photogenic motives of deep waterfalls, craggily mountains and coloured lakes. The scenery is more colourful than my photos on my homepage http://home.freiepresse.de/uwdel/canada2.html could foretell. Another highlights of our tour were the crossing of the Glacier National Park and the Going to the Sun Drive, the plain green prairies of Montanan and at last the Yellowstone NP with geysers, waterfalls, woods, sinter terraces and animals (bison, bear, coyote, moose and more). But these landscapes are already in the USA. We flight to Seattle because its cheaper...

kambodscha-joe 20.08.2003 · Read review
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Paradise in BC

Advantages: Abundant wildlife, gorgeous scenery
Disadvantages: little in the way of public transport

...Vancouver Island is an island off the coast of Vancouver, on the south west coast of British Columbia, Canada. Ciao have been less than generous in describing it as a "Vancouver Experience", as far from being some sort of tourist attraction it is actually a large island home to the capital of British Columbia, Victoria, as well as some 750,000 inhabitants. At roughly 280 miles long, and 60 miles wide, it is a manageable size for a driving holiday. We spent 6 days beetling around in our RV, seeing what the island had to offer, which was sadly not enough (the time, not the island!). ------------When to go---------- Vancouver Island has a very mild and temperate climate. Average temperatures generally stay above zero throughout the year, and can reach mid 20s in summer. The high season for Vancouver Island is July...

kam76 30.09.2005 (03.10.2005) · Read review
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