{"id":754117,"date":"2026-06-22T18:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/754117\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T18:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:34:09","slug":"8-surrey-sites-in-new-freecouver-book-of-free-things-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/754117\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Surrey sites in new \u2018Freecouver\u2019 book of free things to do"},"content":{"rendered":"

8 Surrey sites in new \u2018Freecouver\u2019 book of free things to do<\/p>\n

Published 10:30 am Monday, June 22, 2026<\/p>\n

Sites in Surrey, White Rock and Delta make the Freecouver list of 101 free things to do in and around Vancouver.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the focus of a new book co-authored by Surrey-raised Rebecca Bollwitt, better known as award-winning blogger Miss 604, and John Lee, Lonely Planet guidebook writer and travel columnist.<\/p>\n

Together, in time for summer adventures, they aim to help people plan low-cost day trips across Metro Vancouver.<\/p>\n

In Surrey, Bollwitt and Lee will sign copies of Freecouver this Saturday, June 27 at the Black Bond Books store<\/a> at Central City Shopping Centre, 1 to 3 p.m.<\/p>\n

The event is a fun homecoming for Vancouver resident Bollwitt, who once worked at Surrey Place Mall, now Central City mall, circa 1998. She managed the Bentley luggage\/ bags retailer before transferring to Metrotown. \u201cThe Orange Julius crew was home to all the hot mall gossip,\u201d she recalls. \u201cLunch breaks at Zellers. What a time it was.\u201d<\/p>\n

The eight Surrey places detailed in Freecouver are Barnston Island Ferry, BC Vintage Truck Museum, Historic Stewart Farm, Honeybee Centre, Museum of Surrey, Redwood Park, Surrey Art Gallery and Surrey Nature Centre.<\/p>\n

Entries list other attractions nearby, QR codes link to websites for more details and GFK tags note \u201cGreat For Kids\u201d sites, among other categories.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s easy to give up on going out when you live in a city routinely described as one of the most expensive in Canada,\u201d the authors write. \u201cBut rather than staying on our coaches and admitting defeat, we\u2019ve taken a different approach: scouting out and visiting the very best free attractions and activities in and around Vancouver.\u201d<\/p>\n

Released June 23, the 136-page Freecouver sells for $16.95 paperback, $9.95 e-book on tidewaterpress.ca\/freecouver<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"8 Surrey sites in new \u2018Freecouver\u2019 book of free things to do Published 10:30 am Monday, June 22,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-754117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}