White Rock and its beautiful views.

The last couple of days here in Vancouver mainly existed of taking some rest, communication with family and friends back home in the Netherlands, and some short trips in and around Vancouver.

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Stanley Park and the Granville Island public market.

I'm in Vancouver now for almost one week, and it's great. The people are nice, the weather is good, and there's a lot to see here. Yesterday I went to Stanley Park, a huge park close to downtown Vancouver. We walked around the park and sat in the grass. It's a great place to relax, and a lot of civilians of Vancouver will probably go there to do so.

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I’m in Vancouver; Alex Fraser bridge and Drive-in.

On Tuesday the 22th of July I went to Vancouver to visit my friend Kelly. After a 10 hour flight I finally arrived at Vancouver international airport. At the immigration department they asked me a lot of questions, about what I'm going to do in Canada, where I'm going to stay and they wanted me to show my ticket back to the Netherlands.

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Redbull Air Race Rotterdam 2008: Rainy but Spectacular.

Today I went to the Redbull Air Race in Rotterdam with one of my classmates. I had never visited an air race before, so except of what I saw in the promotion videos, I didn't knew what to expect. Before even one plane had flown the track, the weather turned and it started raining very hard. The wind blew with 42 kilometres an hour. The first qualification round was postponed for half an hour.

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