We woke to hear the pitter patter of rain drops outside! Knew it wasn’t a good sign! It was chucking it down! We got up and had breakfast before heading back to bed for a snooze!! Had a lazy morning, chilling, sort bits out and actually called home! Spent about an hour on the phone on my magic phone card that seems to last forever!! We eventually decided to brave the rain and headed for the shops for a bit of mooching! Saw some lovely clothes but couldn’t bu...

We had about an hour to spare this morning before starting our journey back to Vancouver. We went for our last walk around town, heading a different direction out of the door. During our time in Victoria, we hadn't once seen a Tim's, we'd seen cups but no actual shop! As soon as we turned the corner, what was next door to us?! A Tim's!!! We could even see the building from our room but not the sign! Big HUMF!!After our short walk we caught the bus to the ferry, w...

We set off for the day to explore Victoria. We made our way to the British Columbia museum, calling at staples on the way to look at mini laptops. The museum was too expensive so we went to the legislative buildings next door which are very impressive – but they were shut! Our third option was the undersea gardens which take you 5 metres beneath the water where we saw lots of sea creatures including fish, wolf eels, crabs, starfish (which we got to stroke) and ...

We started our adventure to get to Vancouver Island! There was the option of getting a coach all the way there but it cost a lot of money for what it was so we decided to make our own way on public transport! We had to get to the underground station and take the train out of downtown to a station where we caught the bus down to the ferry. Then we jumped aboard the ferry for 1 hour 35mins, and then caught the city bus, which took about an hour, into Victoria. We m...

We had to move hostels this morning as there was no room for us! We moved our stuff over the road to another one with a huge stuffed moose in the window! We then set off in search of Granville Island. We had to cross a mahusive bridge to get there, yet it wasn’t quite what we were expecting! We were thinking beaches etc, but instead we got markets and old shops! Needless to say, we didn’t spend long there and made our way back! Back in downtown we decided to...