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Originally Posted by jamincan

I'll be in Vancouver from Jan 21-25 for the AME Roundup and am considering staying a few extra days after. I was wondering whether you guys had any recommendations on things to do while I'm there. I don't ski or snowboard and I'm quite introverted, so bar/nightlife stuff isn't really my sort of thing.

Right now I'm planning on renting a mountain bike and riding at Seymour - it's obviously not prime-season, but weather will be a lot nicer than at home that time of year. Regardless, it's going to be highly weather dependent, so it's not something I can really count on doing. In a similar vein, renting a bike and riding around the sea wall/exploring Stanley Park sounds nice.

On the more cultural end, I'm interested in the Bill Reid Gallery, and would have loved to check out the Museum of Anthropology at UBC (closed until June, unfortunately). I'm more broadly interested in natural history/geology as well.

Any restaurant recommendations would be welcome too - we're staying at the Fairmont Waterfront, and likely will want to stick to something more easily reached from downtown (ie. walking/transit).

If you're renting a bike (or using the bikeshare service MOBI) you could cross the Burrard Street Bridge and check out the Museum of Vancouver which is quite good for a civic museum (Canada's largest apparently). The architecture is midcentury cool too. The Vancouver Maritime Museum is near there too, small but good. That also puts you near Granville Island.