RAIN? WHAT RAIN?

There's nothing more Canadian than talking about the weather. And while eastern Canada natters about the white stuff, it's the wet stuff that gets tongues flapping on British Columbia's we(s)t coast. But don't let a little dampness drown your vacation plans -- just grab the Gore-Tex and make like a local with favourite Vancouver-area rainy-day pastimes.

• Visit Hong Kong without a passport on a trip to Richmond's Aberdeen Centre, where the Lower Mainland's sizeable Asian population comes…