Arrived in Vancouver last night, tired and dying for sleep, yet I managed to say awake long enough to meet up with Jon and his partner Raman, with whom I am staying. Theirs is a lovely flat close into the centre of Vancouver.

Jon took me on a whistlestop tour of the city this morning, which was great. It's all so new and shiny! And clean! And the weather is more clement than I had expected. Today is sunny and warm, and very conducive to good impressions.

The next three days are filled with bloggie goodness, so I'm afraid that in a nasty stab of irony, blogging here will be light despite the fact that I'll have more to blog about than usual.