September 5th: Happy Birthday Janine!

Breakfast with a view … again! Then we hit the road. This was always going to be the longest drive of the trip; “Flo” the satnav (go with the flow ..) predicted a journey of just over 4 hours, though she’d not allowed for construction work, coffee stops etc. Talking of the construction work, we were both impressed to see there were quite a few women working on the roads, though possibly all only allowed to hold the stop slow signs. It was harder to tell the sex of those driving the diggers.
It was a beautiful sunny day, so rather frustrating to have to drive past various provincial parks etc., and feel that we didn’t have time to get out and explore.
But, it did mean we arrived in Victoria with time to settle into a very nice hotel, just minutes from the centre of town, a short walk to everything.
Dinner that night was in a highly recommended restaurant, Ulla – one our restaurant review friend from the previous night had fully approved of.

22nd August: Towards the mountains.

First off, we hit the pool before breakfast, then the main drag (and, more to the point, its second hand bookshop), before heading to Kelowna to get another car … (this one has far more storage etc & is generally a better car). First stop was Oyama on Lake Woods in the Lake Country. We’d over ordered in the sushi bar, so a pleasant lunch, before heading to Revelstoke; for some reason, whenever it’s my turn to drive, there are cloud bursts …

Revelstoke itself isn’t that great, though once the rain had cleared, we realised it’s got a very impressive mountain next to it.