Next stop after the Royal BC Museum was the BC Legislature. Tours are every half hour. I'd been to Ontario and Quebec Legislatures before where the tours are the top of the hour. Similarly you have to go thru security screening when you enter.There are two stained glass windows. One for the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth in 2002, one for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.Originally the Parliament was a collection of wood buildings called 'the birdcages'. A...

This morning I woke up and the room was spinning round in number 8's. Oh my god, what had happened?! I'm always fearful when I travel of coming down with something. I think being in a basement apartment it was cooler and with no heat I had a mild fever. I hoped some food and sunning outside would make me feel better.A short walk from where I was staying was Craigdarroch Castle, my first planned stop for day, my first full day in Victoria. My route took me thru ma...

One of the places I'd wanted to visit in downtown Victoria before heading to my airbnb home to rest up was Miniature World. I've been to a similar miniature world in Hamburg (see link at end) and even a small railway museum in Toronto, so didnt expect this to be that good.However I was quite amazed by the imagination and level of detail in such a small space. Entrance is $14.50 and is on the museum street opposite the Bug Museum and Maritime Museums.After various...

Having arrived in downtown Victoria early at 12.30 I had time to kill as I couldnt check into my airbnb accomodation till 4pm. The host messaged me she was getting the place ready for 4pm.As the bus let off by the BC Museum first surprise was there was an Aboriginal Arts Street Festival taking place with music and dance performances.Next to the museum is the BC Legislature. I planned on visiting tomorrow during my full day in Victoria.The place was bustling this ...

One of the places I'd always wanted to visit in Canada was Vancouver in British Columbia on the west coast. Growing up in the UK Vancouver and Victoria were the places we always heard about. It was a popular place to emigrate to as the rainy weather reminded people of England.So well known was it growing up that when we said we were moving to Toronto some people thought that was a neighbourhood in Vancouver as they'd never really heard of Canada's now biggest cit...