I eventually got to my hostel (HI-Central) around 2:30pm and decided to have a shower and grab some food. The hostel is superb although definitely on the cheaper blocks of Granville street - both pawn and porn shops abound, it's over the road from another Hostel (Global Village) and there's a bar downstairs as well.
As a note if you're ever in the Granville Street area head to the 2 Parrots pub, it's great, serves only local brewed beer from the Granville Island brewery (and Guiness) and does some mean steaks - you can get a 8oz Sirloin Steak sandwich for $9.
I didn't do much else on the Sunday, bar some washing and discovering another great Eatery - the Pita Pit which is possibly the greatest takeaway I've ever been to. Had a look in the Hostel pub but it was pretty dead, so got some early sleep.
Next day I just went out for a stroll around town and discovered there's a burger restaurant (Triple O's by White Spot) which has the option of a pint of beer in it's meal deals. Didn't really do much else that day but later went out to the Pub Night in the hostel bar, during which I won a t-shirt in the quiz for my knowledge of what Prince William had been up to. Then ended up going off with a Kiwi, an English lad from my dorm, an Irishman, a Belgian and a German and a couple of others to a dodgy little loft bar on Granville called the Sugar Refinery. We'd unfortunately missed the band of the evening (who'd been named c***) so instead just ordered some pitchers of generically named beer, but this place was so hip that they didn't give you glasses to drink from, oh no they gave you jam jars. Stumbled home about 2am and then managed to get up at about 7 to pack for the Moose Trip, but that's another story!
Posted by Alexis at July 4, 2003 05:58 AM