Everyone told me before I went : "you'll see, one day is enough". I started to think so from the first afternoon there but now, I know there are places that I've never heard of before and that I should have seen...
Anyway, I arrived in Victoria around 6 pm on Sunday and after having checked-in at the Ocean Island Hostel, I decided to discover Victoria downtown by walking for a few hours. Nice place, nice architecture, probably the perfect place for a retired couple on holidays. I walked for a while, enjoying the good weather, the sunset and then the lights of the city. And then, at the end of the day, I was thinking : "one more day... I have to go to some touristic places cause I can't spend one more day wandering around in Downtown". That's when I decided to go to the Butchart Gardens and the Royal BC Museum on Monday.
The gardens in the morning and then the museum in the afternoon. As a stupid girl as I can be sometimes, I've just checked quickly the public transportation to go to the Butchart Gardens on the Internet. Sometimes I think I should always take a map or note everything... Anyway, I missed the stop where I had to change the bus and I ended waiting for a bus along the highway for half an hour. But it was not so bad... good weather at least.
Butchart Gardens is a nice place, like Victoria. Unfortunately, I think it was not the best season to go and finally there was not a lot of things to see but I enjoyed the walk.
The museum is also a good place to see. I'm not really in fond of real stuffed animals and I think that most of that kind of exhibitions are just disgusting - especially the way they put them in the jars and the showcases. I preferred the exhibition floor about the native people and the history of Vancouver Island. In short, it was interesting and I saw for the first time some works by Emily Carr, a famous artist of BC. (it's not the kind of paintings I like in fact...).
Even if I didn't plan to wander around once again, I did it, because I had nothing else to do. It was too late to visit an other place and too early to go back to the hostel. So I tried to go to different places and I walked again and again for a few hours. That's it for the sightseeing!
I met some people in my co-ed room in the hostel and I had a nice time with them the first night. The second one, I met by chance some people I've met before in Vancouver and I had a great time!
These two days in Victoria were nice and the way I visited it is the way I travel usually. Starting by wandering around to see what's interesting or not and then chose some places to spend more time. I've certainly missed many things but it was goooood.
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