Day 1 Vancouver, Canada

After around 4 hours sleep I caught the 9.17am train from diss to London and eventually arrived at heathrow airport at 12pm.Simon and Jill turned up at 2pm and after checking in it was a case of waiting till we boarded the 5.10pm plane bound for Vancouver.The flight was a very exhausting 8 hours but we had a very nice beef lasagne and a couple of cold beers while watching a couple of films to pass the time away with.Eventually we touched down in Vancouver after a very smooth flight at 7.10pm local time.We hung around for my bag to eventually come along the conveyor belt after abit of panicking and caught a taxi to the central youth hostel.This was going to be our home for the next 5 nights.The rise in the taxi gave us a quick glimpse of what the place was like and my first impressions were nice but not what I thought of it although truthfully everything was still a blur and it didn’t seem real.We checked into the hostel and I was staying in a 4bed dorm,and tried to get used to not sleeping in a double bed.After putting our things away we headed down to a nearby bar for a couple of pints and were served by 2 fantastic looking bar maids.I got to my room around 11pm to try and get some sleep but then found out what jetlag is all about.