We were planning to have a wee recce trip together in the autumn, but it didn’t work out with Tim’s work, so I was resigned to taking a trip in spring 2012. Instead, my PR was confirmed incredibly quickly and I found myself booking a last-minute landing trip to Vancouver in some holiday time I already had booked off from work.
I arrived on a Tuesday night and left on Friday evening, so had very little time to do anything. Keeping close to UK hours meant that I didn’t have any jetlag at all, but I also didn’t have any evening activities or a chance to meet up with Tim’s family.
I won’t bore you with the tourist-y details of my trip, except to say that my highlights were:
- Circle Craft Christmas Market
- Neon exhibition at the Museum of Vancouver
- Seeing the Olympic Cauldron lit up at Canada Place
- Remembrance Day service at Victory Square, including singing ‘O Canada’ with other people for the first time :)
- Getting caught in a torrential thunderstorm on the seawall in Stanley Park
Details of the actual immigration process below...
