Spring Visit to the City of Garden

I lived in Victoria for almost seven years. I live in Vancouver now, but I go back to Victoria once in a while just for a visit. Now I appreciate the city and the people more, and am discovering it from a different perspective.


Victoria is known as a city for "the nearly dead and the newly wed". It's true that it's retirees' heaven, and young couples' new world. It attracts thousands of tourists from all over the world every year. I'm lucky that I live still considerably close to it. Just hop on BC Ferries from Vancouver, I'm there.

The photo you see here was taken over Easter weekend at the popular Victoria Inner Harbour, in front of a number of century old buildings, including BC Parliament Buildings, the Fairmont Empress Hotel, and Royal London Wax Museum. As you lazily stroll along the causeway of Inner Harbour, you get a great view of a fleet of sail boats docked peacefully in the water. This is definitely a destination stop not to be missed.