It’s strange how folk religion survives.
Vancouver airport must be one of the most pleasant airports,
ever. Parts of it serve as an art gallery, featuring stunning sculptures from
their greatest First Nation artists. The souvenir shops have genuinely good
stuff, reasonably priced- and the food on offer is remarkably good. Pride of
place in one section is a massive aquarium full of creatures from the
North-East Pacific Ocean, fronted by a large fenced pool preventing people from
putting their sticky hands on the glass. And guess what’s lying there at the
bottom of the pool. Money, lots of it, hundreds and hundreds of coins from all
parts of the world, thrown in by travellers waiting for their next flight.
