The final countdown and with 10 days to go, everything I see is Australian. For example, the round Australian Flag on the sidewalk in South Granville (part of FlagWalk for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics), the Aussie Boot Company on W4th near coffee fav 49th Parallel, and even one of the cashiers from Capers, my local store, just happens to be from Byron, Australia's easternmost point.Byron Bay was named by Captian Cook after John Byron (grandfather of poet Lord Byron). The same Captain Cook who sailed with Captain George Vancouver who "discovered" my hometown, Vancouver. Vancouver, apparently, is derived from the word van Coevorden, meaning "from Coevorden", a city in the northeast of the Netherlands.
Which brings me to the Dutch guy in the pic with a mango. Huub was at Stella's on the Drive last night having Belgium beer. This morning, it's Australian mangos.
