Victoria Travel Blogs

   I love living in this city, I am very lucky.  There is so much beauty that surrounds this city, and Vancouver Island in general.  I work right downtown (first job), close to the inner harbour.  There is much crammed into a block, lots to see, and many things to do. …

I am not going to go through all of the history of Victoria...I think I did that in some of my earlier blogs...I had been sick for about the last 10 days or so...and I was getting cabin fever really badly.Not that I couldn't go anywhere...I really had no energy.  I had a really bad viral infec…

Yes it has started here...the anticipation of Christmas...food...friends...and lots of cheer.I am going to add to this journal later.I need to research and think about lots of things before putting everything into words.But I wanted to put some pictures up of this winter wonderland...and the stirri…

I had the day off of both jobs today and when I first woke up to a beautiful sunny morning...I tried to think of what I wanted to do today.I sat there out on my balcony...watching the sun rise...the ocean in the background and just watch the wee clouds go by.What to do...what to do....I couldn't go…

I had every intention when Toby dog woke me up this morning to get out of bed and drive to Sydney to take pictures of the sunrise...but I changed my mind.I got up let the dogs out for their morning rounds and proceeded to make my coffee.I am sitting at my computer and Tuggs and Toby come up to me a…

  Originally I was supposed to go to Butchart Gradens with my friends Mike and Lesley..they decidied they wanted to go to Fort Rod Hill instead. (I may never get to Butchart Gardens)...... So I grabbed my camera and away we went.  I had already seen the tall Ships most of the Friday and S…

  It was the July long weekend......I had been waiting for these darn things to come in all year long.  I thought the day was never going to get here.The Tall Ships...hooray!!!They began coming in Friday morning around 10:00am...of course I was at work so I could not get out to the ocean …

Well today was the beginning or passing of the torch of the Winter Olympic games that are being held in Vancouver (whistler).It started early this morning in Victoria..traveled to Sydney, into Esquimalt...all around Victoria.It was kind of a gloomy day to start...but brighten up some...had some rai…

As I had missed the concert last night, I got in quite a bit of rest. 4 hours from 9pm to 1am, and then 5 more from 3:30am to 8:30am. Since we had to leave at 11am to catch the noon ferry I thought I'd see a teeny bit more of Victoria before we had to go. I got up, showered and ran around town for …

These are some of my favorite pictures of the flowers, plants, and fauna, that grown here right on Vancouver Island. Some are gardens...and other grow only up in the mountain ranges...I hope you enjoy them.

These are just a few more pictures that I took during my stay in Victoria...while I could not get home.So I wandered around the Inner Harbour for a bit...until it started to sprinkle rain outside...then I hurried to the Apartment.I loved being down there during the evening...just to walk around and…

We started the day with an early breakfast, bananas, cereal, strawberries, cherries, plums and soy milk.  Nothing too sexy, but it offered us a quick get-a-way as we packed the car up with our stuff and headed over to the harbour for a morning stroll before hitting the Parliament Building.&nbs…

Monday morning then! Happy Memorial Day America! Although business as usual in Canada... I woke up by 7am and was on the road at 8am. You could hear the honks of cars and buses, the commuter traffic, people going to work, college, etc. Return of the manic Monday. I seemed to be fairly at peace that…

In the morning, after our first breakfast in the RV, we take the bus to Victoria. After walking around for a bit at the harbor we do some ‘window-shopping’ for a whale watching safari. I really don’t know why but in the end we choose Seafun Safaris. Honestly, they all look alike. Same kind…

A 25 hour train trip to Seattle, Washington. The Pacific NorthWest is so lush and beautiful, amazingly it only drizzled once the entire week...and that was at the end of our day trip to Victoria, Canada. Lots of good food there, had Thai one night and Ethiopian food the next. Some really great bubble tea too!!