Victoria, Canada Travel Blogs

Mount Doug
Jul 14, 2005 (5 photos)

This morning the whole gang trekked from Catherine's place to the beach at Mount Doug. We had lunch on the beach and the kids played on the beach.

Victoria (on Vancouver Island)
Jul 16, 2006 (3 photos)

Dean: On Sunday we travelled from Vancouuver over to Victoria on Vancouver Island. We could have just booked ourselves on to a tour bus that would take us across (so no need to worry about the ferry etc) but we decided to do it ourselves, via public ...

Adjusting
Mar 10, 2007

... by the beginning of March still haven't opened. Crocuses and snowdrops are about to bloom a month late. It's unfamiliar weather for Victoria, and my body isn't used to it either. But the larger curiosities are the first experiences back in Canada. The ...

Pictures now added!!!
Jul 19, 2006

Dean: We have now (yesterday and today) finished uploading all of the pictures to the site. Sorry for the delay guys - enjoy!

Museum of British Columbia, Victoria
Jul 20, 2006 (4 photos)

... (including a wooly mammoth - which had real ice all around it), some stuff about the First Nations/Indians, History of Victoria and BC (including a stand about the 80's including loads of toys and stuff with a load of little kids standing around saying " ...

Goldstream Provincial Park
Jul 20, 2005 (11 photos)

... and peddlers selling wares. There were alot of tourists around but that seems to be the case most days in downtown Victoria. After a brief walk down Government St and some window shopping and a Canadian soccer shirt later, I decided to go check out the ...

From Vancouver to Vancouver Island
Jul 13, 2005 (8 photos)

... and packed up our things. After checking out and storing our luggage with the bell desk, we had a wonderful dim sum lunch at Victoria Chinese restaurant right next to our hotel. It was the best dim sum that I've had because there were a ton of vegetarian ...

East Sooke Park
Jul 18, 2005 (10 photos)

This morning Claudia, Tim, Catherine, the nieces and nephew, and Sze and I drove to East Sooke Park for a hike. It's a great park for hiking with green woods, rocky cliffs, and the ocean. The girls especially loved climbing the rocks along the way. After ...

Back to the island..
Feb 8, 2008 (4 photos)

Not long after arriving in Vancouver Tracey and I headed over to Victoria for a long weekend. Being semi fresh arrived from the its free, or almost free - UK we were still in a state of shock at how expensive all tourist attractions seemed and so we were ...

The British in British Columbia
Sep 4, 2006 (10 photos)

... a bit worried about that extra cake I had consumed but we managed it back safely. There is a definite British feel to Victoria, perhaps just that the buildings are older or because its the capital or just because there are a few royal stories about. ...

Home-bound
Mar 2, 2007

... Cubans handle line-ups better than Canadians, but we still have some pleasant little connections with our fellow detainees. One family from Victoria are just getting back from a stay at Varadero. Like us, Maria and Mike travelled with their kids and their ...

Victoria's Chinatown
Jul 15, 2005 (2 photos)

... shops through Fan Tan Alley. Apparently, ages ago, Fan Tan Alley used to house some the more shady businesses in downtown Victoria in the shape of opium houses and gambling dens. From Pandora Street, you can walk through Fan Tan Alley onto Fisgard Street, ...

Luminara
Jul 23, 2005 (9 photos)

Today was our last full day in Victoria. We picked the girls up from rock climbing and went to lunch at a Buddhist vegan restaurant called "Lotus Pond". After lunch, a honey bun from the Chinese bakery and a cup of coffee later, we headed to Beacon Hill ...

Stuff to know for Cuba
Apr 7, 2007

CUBA SPECIFIC INFO This is supplemental information to my detailed travel tips in my second journal entry, Parental Leaving. All prices are in convertible pesos -- roughly the US dollar. Accommodation Cuba's casa particular system is perfect for ...

The Best Laid Plans
Nov 5, 2003 (1 photos)

Hair and vacations don't mix for me. Normally content to have a hairstyle best described as unkempt, on leaving Victoria I find my Shaggy DA look annoys me. I wander the streets of San Francisco, Macau or Nogales, hoping to find a cheap, friendly ...

Moss Street Paint In
Jul 17, 2005

We went down to Moss St. for the Moss Street Paint-In where a bunch of artists line up their work for exhibition and sale all down Moss St. Other than that, we had a nice lazy day doing nothing.

Victoria
Feb 16, 2009 (12 photos)

... a bite and some catching up.  From there we headed out to Metchosin where Jill and family resides about 20 minutes from the centre of Victoria.  The Hammond family actually runs an amazing B & B out there.  It is perched up on a hill overlooking the water ...

It Begins
Dec 2, 2006

When does a trip begin? I just booked the flights, set the start and end dates for Cuba. We've called our parents and said we're going. But the first motion of this voyage can be traced back so much earlier than the pencilled lists of possibilities. ...

Living the Life of Riley!
May 7, 2008 (60 photos)

... of the flowers. The beauty and smell of the flowers was overwhelming. Sunday night I went for a stroll around downtown Victoria and got extremely frustrated. Everywhere I looked I saw couples walking around. It was a beautiful evening. I've been ...

ferries and bikes
Feb 22, 2004 (9 photos)

... so we met two girls, Stacey, a fellow Australian, and Helen, a Brit, who were our roommates. Stacey has just arrived in Canada from Australia and so Chellsie and I were eager to share our advice and experiences. It was interesting listening to Chellsie, a ...

Letter to the Editor
Mar 19, 2007

... without being edited too heavily on March 20 in the National Post, the more conservative of the two national newspapers in Canada. Having just returned from 6 weeks in Cuba, I was interested to see the Post running a series of articles on life there ...

Victoria
Aug 25, 2009 (10 photos)

We started our trip with the best of intentions. Originally we wanted to head to Cancun and travel overland to Belize. In the end, we found ourselves discovering Van Island. Our trip started by exploring Victoria BC, Enjoy the photos.

"THAT IS TOO COOL." (WE MADE IT ACROSS)
Aug 31, 2003 (1 photos)

... of native-Canadians are entitled to. My drivers, now, were on their way to sell these salmon to Vietnamese restaurants in Victoria. How ironic. The driver, Shea, in a college basketball jersey, and his wife, Robin, were nice and smily. They kept ...

Blue
Oct 30, 2003 (1 photos)

... cleaned out and packed for the promise of warm nights beneath the Southern Cross. The facts we miss Christmas and return to Victoria when Lucy is twice her current age (and no longer a newborn) elicite strong emotions from family. Last night, Julie's ...

Epilogue
Jan 24, 2005

Arriving home to Victoria in the middle of winter is a monstrously bad gonch pull. On top of the effects of 30 hours in transit, the daylight deficit sends me into a mild gloom. Sunday, I have to turn on the kitchen light to read a recipe at 4:15 pm. ...

BACK IN CANADA!
Jun 16, 2005

... back for a few days now and the initial strangeness of it all is beginning to wear off. After nearly 2.5 years outside of Canada the North American culture seems really rather odd to me. I can't believe how BIG and NEW everything is. After spending so ...

Butchart Gardens (US&C)
Apr 24, 2008 (5 photos)

I visited Butchart Gardens in Victoria, Vancouver Island, Canada twice. The first time was when I was 16 years old, and I was on a trip with my parents. The second time was in 2001 when I went with my own family and my husband's parents. Both times the ...

Anita
Jun 2, 2006 (5 photos)

... from OZ (uni days baby). We caught a ferry over there from Ancactores, WA (if anyone cares!) Anita has just moved to Victoria from Germany even though she is from Oz...so she was playing the tourist with us! The first thing we learned about Canada is ...

We're at Grannies!!!!!!! (actually in Sidney)
Aug 1, 2006 (37 photos)

... ! It is masses of people picnicing on rugs on the grass round the harbour....and then listwening to an amazing free concert by the Victoria symphony orchestra....followed by fireworks! It was such fun...and took me back to being a kid again, and all those ...

Kitchen etc.
Oct 18, 2008 (3 photos)

Thought I'd post a few pictures. The first two is of our newly-remodeled kitchen and the third is a shot I took from near the top of Mt. Work. The second picture is a bit dark and all three are a bit soft as the batteries are weak in the camera, ...