Vancouver’s Street Art

Let’s head back to Canada – specifically, Vancouver – for a second, shall we? I was going through my photographs a couple of weeks ago because I want to put a few of my favourite up on the wall and I came across all these colourful snaps of the murals I spotted whilst strolling around Vancouver. I’ve already written a whole post about what I got up to during my 48 hours or so spent in the city, but I thought the murals were so incredible that they deserved a whole post of their own. 🙂

When Sunny and I booked our hotel we just went for one of the cheapest we could find (hotels in Vancouver are so expensive!) that wasn’t too far from downtown. We ended up booking one in Mount Pleasant, which apparently used to be the rough end of town until it went through some regeneration a few years back. Nowadays it’s full of coffee shops and poke restaurants and some really beautiful street art. In fact, every year in August Vancouver holds a Mural Festival to celebrate diverse local cultures and their histories as well as issues facing the city through vibrant murals. If you’re heading to Vancouver and fancy checking out all the murals, there’s a handy map pointing them all out and explaining the meaning behind them here.