back to top **** chapter 7 - vancouver : patchouli alt-crabby at the waters edge for many soggy years , before the invention of renewable flooring , day spas and giant , colorful cocktails , the emblematic counter-cultural vancouver neighborhood of patchouli has really been two neighborhoods : the first is up a ways on a moderately high hill above the less-than-majestic estuary , lispenard arm , much smaller and less-well known than larger burrard inlet .