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Travel Blogs from Victoria, Canada
Prologue - Anatomy of a Trip
I will expand on this entry, but let's start with this. I had heard of people (friends of friends, mostly) travelling over to Europe, but never really thought much about doing it myself. In the spring of 1997, a friend that I worked with at the time ...
Getting ready
Only a week to go. I'm setting up this TravelPod to see how it works. If you get this let me know. I can't make promises about regular posts to this blog as that depends on the WiFi connections where we stay, and those can be spotty in Israel. Our basic ...
On to Victoria, B.C.
... half a mile from downtown and there are shuttle buses to take you there. We chose to walk to burn off some calories. Victoria is especially beautiful in May. The flowers and trees are all blooming and the temperature was in the sixties. We did ...
Run for the Border
... , as you might imagine, were pretty relaxed at the sight of us in our camper van. Our port of entry was Victoria, an attractive city on the southern point of Vancouver Island. We checked into an RV park across the bay from downtown, and ...
Please can I have my own gardner and lots of water
Julia, Robert, Keith , Rosie and I left Salmon Arm after Keith arrived home from working all night. We travelled through Whistler and then down onto Vancouver where we stayed with Diana, Rosie's sister. Julia was a big help with all her driving skills on ...
Saying Goodbye to Vancouver
... and I then organized a hire car so we could return Jim and Jen's. This required me to drive on my own - through Victoria. A rather nerve-racking experience since it has been over 30 years since driving left-hand drive. But as with everything on this trip ...
2006 Victoria Habour Floating Boat Show
... Boat Show, put on by the BC Yacht Brokers Association, took place April 20-23 at its new and exciting location at Victoria's Inner Harbour. This location allows visitors to enjoy the wonders of downtown Victoria and to view upwards of 200 new and ...
Beautiful blue skied days on Vancouver Island
... kleren!) We hebben ook de Chinese wijk gezien, heel leuk met een toegangspoort en lampionnetjes die ophangen als lantaarns. Ja heel leuk. Victoria is eigenlijk een kleine stad, ja zou nooit raden dat het de hoofdstad is van BC, maar dat is het dus wel. ...
Back to Routine
We are right back into the swing of things after a nice holiday break. I don't know how people who don't like their jobs go back to work after two weeks of vacation - I like my job and it's still hard! We had a quiet Christmas Day at home. As soon ...
Back to Where the People Are...
... urban development. Surprising how just a couple of days "in the bush" really changes your perspective. When walking in downtown Victoria, the activity of late afternoon on a working day was quite overwhelming...guess we should get out more often, huh? ...
Arriving in Victoria
Another beautiful day (there's that word beautiful again). The ferry boat that takes us from Port Angeles to Victoria i not a big one but nice. There we three bikes crossing over and a 50cc moped. The moped was built in the 60's and the adventurous fella ...
so brittisch
... aber auch von einem Repräsentanten der brittischen Krone. Der Garten oder eher Park liegt auf einer Anhöhe, von der man über Victoria gucken kann, über das Wasser bis hin zum Festland. Dort zeigen sich die Bergspitzen in weiß. Hier hat man wirklich ...
East coast to west the easy way...
... up with Erin, Dan and Phil since being back which is cool... Me and Erin have done quite a bit of walking around downtown victoria while I slowly remember where everything is, and me and Phil have caught up a couple of times, including a night out at ...
Putting the British into British Columbia
... orcas or whales though although I hear they're a common sight out here. I swap buses and it's still another 4 hours before I reach Victoria (spotting another bald eagle on the way). It's raining (for a change) but I head to the hostel without much ...
Butchart Gardens is Amazing!!!
While on the ship, we could join a choir, so of course, I did. We sang Broadway show tunes - Getting to Know You, Till There was You, Wouldn't it be Loverly, and Oklahoma. It was a lot of fun and for practicing a few times, I think we were pretty ...
Firework musical show
Butchart Gardens Fellow kiwis had recommended a visit to Butchart Gardens in the strongest possible terms, so we had a look even though we felt that $25 to get into a garden was outrageous. They can obviously get away with it though because they get a ...
Victory! It's Canada Day in Victoria
... loopt op z'n einde. Zie de laatste entry voor meer info. Voor een weekendje naar de hoofstad van onze provincie: Victoria. Het is de nationale feestdag, dus overal feestgedruis :) Kijken en luisteren naar het jaarlijkse spektakel (een orkest speelt op ...
An island in a foreign country
... that looks like a second toilet) I was truly living large. We visited all the major sites that are staples of visiting Victoria. The first night we took the mass transit to the Burchart Gardens. They had a christmas lights presentation and it was very ...
Back in UVic
Well im here now - and finally unpacked! I got back from kayaking very very stinky and had no food so it was straight out to shop. When I got back I met my housemates - 3 girls, one from Vancouver, one from Thailand (these two know each other ...
The end of an era.....
... ice cream - Mum's you would have been proud) it was time to leave our adopted family and head out on our own. First stop Victoria to drop the car off where they initially try to charge us $300 because of a chipped windscreen but we put up a decent ...
