A Dress Rehearsal for Italy?

You wouldn’t be alone if you asked me what us going to the Sea Vancouver Festival today had to do with our upcoming trip to Italy.

Quite a bit, I would say. Last weekend Barb suggested that we go see the tall ships at the Sea Vancouver Festival. We ended up calling my brother Peter and his wife Liz and we went together to the festival. This event is where there are the dozen or so tall sailing ships from all over the world that were here for this event. We also ended up touring the Vancouver Maritime Museum and many other maritime-related festival events.

One of the most fascinating events at the festival was put on by a group called the Royal Engineers Living History Society. They had this demonstration camp setup with all of their group in various authentic mid-1800’s military uniform showing how they lived and performed their duties in that era. While my brother and I found this all very interesting, Barb and Liz seemed to get bored early and ended up waiting patiently for us on a nearby bench.

For most of the afternoon we toured the sights of the Sea festival then walked around Yaletown where we ended up eating dinner at the Yaletown Brewing Company.

It was here, while we were enjoying our dinner, that we commented on the fact that this all-day adventure was quite similar to how our days would be in Italy – lots of walking about exploring the sights and ending the day with a nice relaxing meal. Granted Yaletown isn’t Rome or Tuscany but the overall events of the day were fairly similar to how our days together are going to be in Italy.

The good news is that for this near-all day adventure, we continue to be pretty pretty compatible on the things that we like to do and see.

We now just need to see if we can sustain this for 20 more days.

Baden