sheff2van : sheffield -> vancouver

We had The Police playing at our local pub last night.

Or rather, we've just moved to our new apartment which is across the road from GM Place - the stadium where the Vancouver Canucks ice hockey team play their home games and sometime music venue for touring bands.

They have reformed for a world tour of which this was the first date, and looking out the kitchen window we could see plenty of limo's taking the estemed audience home afterwards.

To be honest I'd forgotten they were playing in Vancouver as it was a while ago the date was announced, and it wasn't until I looked at the BBC News website the next morning I realised what had been on.

Initially I was confused why a two-year old story about how highly Vancouver is rated as a city was in the list of the top five most read stories. But then I realised that it must have been The Police's presence in the city that had drawn attention to it.