Xmas lounges

Walking through our neighbourhood, I already had noticed the specific style of apartment buildings, all with very representative lounges. Especially now at Christmas time, they are worth a look, so follow me through a short virtual walk through Kits.






In contrast, the last picture doesn't show an apartment lounge but an abandoned shopping trolley as it is used by the many thousand homeless, collecting deposit and other recycable garbage. Maybe, he or she couldn't get it through the raising snow anymore, nobody knows.

The whitest Christmas

We are not snowed in, we have power, we have enough food! The only thing missing are a few christmas presents and cards that still did not make it to our place :-( The road conditions require at least winter tires if not a 4-wheel drive and even Canada post seems to be overextended by 30 cm of snow.

We love the snow and look forward to the next snowfall anounced. Isn't it great to wake up at night and look out, hoping more than anything to see snow falling? Hearing the sound of nothing outside is amazing. The snow is like a blanket that takes away all sounds. It makes you feel like you are 10 again and want to go outside to sled down the hills for hours until you can't feel your hands and feet and then come home to a huge pot of hot chocolate.


View towards downtown from West 2nd Avenue


Robert's Creek cohousing

13% chance of White Christmas

We have had a beautiful day of snow this 3. advent. It started snowing last night, really nice light snowflakes and in the morning there was nearly 10 cm of snow. Some of it melted away during the day but still roofs and trees are covered. The weather forcast is temperature below zero for the next days so there's a chance the snow will stay a bit longer.


Kits Beach before the snow. It only snowed in the mountains until last night.


The beach covered with snow this afternoon.


Stylish dressed Kitsilano dogs at the beach.

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Yes, this is the view from our roof on a bright perfect day like today was. I had to climb up the neighbours roof though to get the best view. Luckily the weren't home otherwise I might have had a chance to finally meet them, since we have only seen light but no people there.

I went on a bike trip east today and had to stop several times to take photos between the building because the view on downtown and the mountains (with a bit of snow) was so impressive.

Advent season in Vancouver

Freshly shopped christmas tree on the way home


What looks like christmas decoration is really a gas station (Petro Canada)


West 4th Avenue an sunset

New appartment

This is how our new appartment looks like now. We have a littel balcony and a terrace and its really light as you can see. Now we have twelve days left to prepare whatever is necessary so we can actually live there! Donations are welcome!!!

Today is the first really bright sunny day since I got here almost a week ago. Its cold and windy but really nice. So I went to the beach for a walk:


Our neighbourhood, two blocks from the beach


Group of jogging mothers at Kitsilano Beach (10:30 am)


Downtown Skyline seen from Point Grey