Michael Bublé tours Schitt's Creek star Eugene Levy around Vancouver

Michael Bublé and Eugene Levy show their Canadian colours during a day hanging out atop Grouse Mountain for Levy's AppleTV+ travel show The Reluctant Traveler. Bublé was Levy's tour guide for the show's season three finale all about Vancouver. Photo by Christina Belle /Courtesy of Apple

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Eugene Levy wrapped up the third season of his Apple TV+ travel show The Reluctant Traveller by spending some quality time with B.C.’s favourite singing superstar, Michael Bublé.

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After visiting Austria, England, India, Ireland, Mexico, South Korea and the United States, the Schitt’s Creek star and iconic Second City alum ended the season in the Vancouver area.

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Before meeting up with Bublé, Levy, a Hamilton, Ont. native who admittedly hadn’t been to Vancouver in 25 years, did his best travel guide work and pumped-up Vancouver’s tires.

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He walked the seawall in the rain and then headed indoors to Granville Island to ask a handful of shopkeepers at the popular public market what makes the area so great.

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Surprise, surprise, the answers were familiar ones: Nature on our doorstep, mild winters and an abundance of fresh seafood.

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For his stay, Levy, who can be seen in the new documentary You Had to Be There about the legendary 1972 Toronto production of Godspell, unpacked in a quaint house on the ocean in West Vancouver.

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“One great thing about Vancouver is bad weather rarely hangs around,” said Levy while sipping a glass of red wine on the deck. (Insert your own Vancouver in November joke here.)

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The next day, the self-professed non-sporty type headed up Grouse Mountain to meet up with Bublé.

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“It’s not me in my natural habitat at all, but I have to say it is spectacular up here,” said Levy as he stood in the snow and looked toward the city below.

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After the snowmobile dropped off Bublé, the pair donned snowshoes and walked up to the summit. Of course, during the walk, Bublé was clocked by fans.

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“It’s just a meet and greet. Everywhere I go is a meet and greet. I love it. My gramps used to say, ‘Enjoy it sunshine, one day they won’t give a s—‘,” said Bublé.

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After some East-versus-West banter, hot chocolate and tobogganing, the pair moved on to their next adventure: Crabbing in Deep Cove and a heart-to-heart about their lives as kids before they became household names.

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“Everything that I knew until I was 21 was this is what you are going to do. I spent most of my life out here,” Bublé, whose father and grandfather were fisherman, said as he and Levy stood on the deck of a fishing boat as it powered out of the cove.

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Crabs caught, the next step was eating them. The pair did that at Bublé’s Burnaby mansion before they did the most Canadian thing ever and played a little hockey. The fun matchup wasn’t out in the street, but rather on Bublé’s private indoor rink.

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Michael Bublé and Eugene Levy sing Fly Me to the Moon in the Bacchus Lounge at the Wedgewood Hotel in Vancouver. The pair were shooting an episode of Levy”s travel show The Reluctant Traveler. Photo by Christina Belle /Courtesy of Apple

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“Looks like it is yours truly versus a man who has a full-sized hockey rink in his basement,” said Levy, who donned Toronto Maple Leafs gear and stood in goal as Bublé — of course, wearing a Canucks jersey — took shots on him.

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“On the plus side ,if I lose, I can blame the home team advantage and the fact that I’m pushing 80.”

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The Bublé ride finished the only way it could — with the pair of showbiz icons sidling up to the piano in the Bacchus Lounge at the Wedgewood Hotel for a song.

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What did they sing? Well, Sintra, of course.

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