Sunday, June 7
Today we are booked to go on the Historic House Tour together with a friend who knows the city like the back of her hand.
The tour starts by False Creek near the former athletes' quarters. There is a beautiful little park.
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| Couldn't resist getting that Swiss flag into the picture |
For obvious reasons, there are no photos of any of the houses and apartments we visit.
The first two buildings are in the vicinity of False Creek.
The first one is a former warehouse. We get to see four very interesting, converted apartments in there.
The second building was always an apartment building. We see three of them, also very interesting.
Then we move on to individual houses, and very individual they are indeed. All are vintage houses, naturally, and everyone of them has been done up beautifully, interestingly and in a very original way.
There is one, however, that really stands out. It has a turret which can be hidden away by a sliding bookshelf. There is a dumb waiter which goes from the ground floor all the way up to a little roof garden.
The best, and most intriguing feature however, is the upstairs bathroom. It has a very deep round bathtub in one corner. On the opposite wall is a very large shower recess - built to be used by two people - featuring a floor to ceiling glass panel overlooking the staircase. Gasp!
But then we check the view from the staircase and there, high up on the wall, we see a very large, ornately framed mirror :-)
How decadently cheeky!
Who knows, if we were to open some closets, we might even find skeletons.......but of course, we don't do that.
That was definitely sightseeing with a difference.
