Cycling The Lochside Trail for Beginners
Over Easter Weekend, Victoria had incredible weather, like the rest of BC, when temperature records fell around our province and sunburns were omnipresent. I chose then to rediscover my love […]
Category Archives: Victoria Love
Living versus Blogging: The Victoria Dilemma
The old saying goes, you either work to live or you live to work. I do the former, but sometimes opportunities come rolling in that one would be a fool […]
An Ode to the City of Beer and Its Beaches
The wind has been battering the coast for days now. Brutal windchills have made the seasonal sunshine seem ironic, but today it warmed a couple degrees, the wind dropped a […]
My Week in Photos: A Victorian Lifestyle
I thought maybe a great way to present the way I see life in Victoria, since I work at home and get to have a very self-directed life, would be […]
Exploring Victoria in the Spring (The Restaurants Too!)
Victoria is exploding in early spring. On a delightful Sunday afternoon bike ride, I found myself encountering signs of Spring popping up all over Fairfield and Beacon Hill Park. Some […]
Victoria in 1936: MGM’s Traveltalk Newsreel
Long before blogs, long before TV, you’d be lucky if you had a chance to catch a newsreel playing in a theatre. Every now and then, you’d get something exotic, […]
Victoria: The City of Beers
Paris is the City of Lights. New York is “the city that never sleeps.” Victoria? It’s the City of Beers. Home to Canada’s first brew pub, Spinnakers, which opened in […]
Goodnight, Ogden Breakwater.
Witten at 10:08 PM on Sunday, February 3rd. It’s the end of an era tonight. When I’m wiping sleep from my eyes, workers will be barricading the Ogden Breakwater as […]
The Birth of the Blog
I came to Victoria to find something. A life I maybe misplaced, or that grew away from me. Big-city life and me, we didn’t get along so well. But then, […]
