This year, for the last four days of spring break, my mum and I decided to go to Vancouver Island. We started our trip at 5 in the morning, and boarded our plane at 7:15. Thankfully, I avoided taking any photos for the first few hours of our trip, but as soon as we made it to Victoria (or first destination) I decided that a little photo diary would be the best plan for my next blog post. Okay that’s enough chat, time for some bad quality photography and stupid comments. 🙂
day 1:
I tried to avoid taking photos from the plane, but this was right before we landed and I thought it was lovely.
The very first thing we did after getting our rental car and bags, was get a coffee. We also decided to get donuts, a healthy start to our trip.
Here’s a very blurry photo from our hotel room at the Empress.
The first half of our day was spent exploring downtown Victoria, and I took wayyy too many pictures.
They were tearing down a building and I thought it was pretty enough to take a picture of.
My “adventouring” outfit choice of the day
A hopefully artsy photo of a daffodil outside the hotel.
We went and had fish and chips on the dock for lunch and I was so excited. I’ve been a vegetarian for the past six months, and I decided that I’d eat at least fish during our trip, so this was a hell of a treat.
After we ate, we ended up going back to the hotel for a bit and then going to a board game cafe. Surprisingly, I took no photos there. On our way back to the hotel, we went and checked out the parliament here in Victoria. I didn’t take any photos there because I can guarantee, that every single parliament building looks very similar. We didn’t end up doing anything else after that, besides dinner at the restaurant in our hotel.
Anyways, that’s day one of my vacation 🙂
day 2:
The second day in Victoria started quite similarly to the first, and by that, I mean we went and had coffee and doughnuts
My attempt at trendy mirror photos, featuring an old elevator.
The first half of our day we decided to spend in a little harbour town called Sydney, and no I don’t mean the one in Australia.
I tried really hard to make a good impression on the locals.
He flew away literally right after I took his photo.
I tried to make friends with this statue, and unsurprisingly no one liked my jokes about how quiet he was.
We stopped in this adorable little plant shop and I tried to convince my mum to let me buy a catnip plant. She remained unconvinced that it was a necessity.
For lunch, we went to this place called the “Surly Mermaid”. Our waiter had an irish accent and the whole time I just wanted to listen to him talk.
After that we drove back to Victoria, and my mum and I went out to buy a touristy Victoria sweatshirt, before returning to the hotel.
Our afternoon plans were to have High Tea at the hotel cafe. We all ended up changing because it was a somewhat fancy affair.
High Tea included an adorable selection of tiny sandwiches, and surprisingly, we were full by the end of it.
We finished our day by taking a walk by the ocean and then retiring to our room for an early night.
day 3:
Unsurprisingly, our third day started with a coffee and thankfully, a muffin (no doughnuts today).
We went to this super cute hipstery place called “Discovery Coffee” and actually ended up buying some mugs because hey they were super cute.
Sporting my tacky Victoria hoodie, we checked out of our hotel. My mum and I were planning on driving up to Courtenay later today.
Before lunch and a long drive, we went to this area in Victoria called the fisherman’s wharf, and it was decked full of colourful
For lunch, we went to a vegetarian place called “Be love”. I will say, it’s about as hippy-
Our time in Victoria came to an end, and we stared up the highway to Courtenay. Of course, we couldn’t take the quick two-hour drive there, we had to take the scenic route. And as lovely as that was, it took far longer than we wanted. The hotel we’re staying at is called the “Kingfisher” and it’s an adorable resort. We ended up just sticking around here for dinner before calling it a night.
I’d call day three, an uneventful success.
day 4:
Our last day on Vancouver Island was the most interesting. I took a single photo and honestly I think that’s all I needed. The day started with some bad coffee at Starbucks. After that we went and spent a good three or four hours with some family that I have here. We went for lunch at this little restaurant called the Atlas and then walked around downtown Courtenay. We ended up buying these adorable overalls that I can’t wait to wear, and then we returned here to our hotel. After a quick dinner here, we went for a swim at the hotel pool. Our evening, and last day of vacation came to a close with some chocolates and an episode of the Simpsons.
