YOU NEED TO VISIT VICTORIA, BC | Gorgeous Harbour City On Vancouver Island
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia and definitely one of the most beautiful and relaxing cities in Canada! It is the perfect place to start a Vancouver Island roadtrip and absolutely deserves a stay of a minimum of 2 days. Join my friend Laine and I as we discover the quaint streets of the city, eat some INCREDIBLE food and see some amazing attractions. A very big thank you to the Inn at Laurel Point for the free stay, I would highly (genuinely) recommend their hotel as a the perfect place to explore the city from. You can book directly on their website: www.laurelpoin...
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I used to live in Langford in 2015 but once I moved back to Alberta I’ve been back 4 times since 2018 because I miss living there! There’s a different vibe that’s unexplainable on the island 🌴
Vancouver is one of the best cities in the world!
@@quentinautomation Je sais la ville presente dans le video est Victoria mais justement mon opinion que Vancouver est une des meilleuses villes du monde.
Lovely presentation of my hometown, Victoria! I currently live in Calabria Italy and have been here for six years. Totally different, but the place that I love and call home now! Just for curious people... 10:46 Dallas Road breakwater/cruise ship terminal view, 11:11 Dallas Road dog park, 11:21 Clover point view point, 11:27 Beacon Hill park... Just in case some of your viewers are considering visiting and want to know where these things are. And... Thank you for not playing up the homeless situation. Victoria is one of the cities in Canada with the most temperate climate.. therefor big homeless problem... but... it is beautiful and safe all the way around! Enjoy Vancouver Island... Lots of wonder and amazement!!
Thank you!!
Quite a few years ago my wife and I visited Victoria, I remember it as a very beautiful city. We took a horse and carriage ride, funny that our driver should be Australian as are we. The Butchard Gardens were simply amazing, just so beautiful. Thankyou for refreshing our memories.
This must be the happiest that I've seen you🤭love your specs and the garden...wow, awesome,spectacular
Victoria is 'picture postcard' beautiful and your hotel..wow Thanks for taking us to the stunning garden's it was a real treat to see..Hi Laine 👋 🇨🇦 🇬🇧
👋🏼 😄
One of my favourite cities in Canada! 😎
When we go back to Vancouver definitely will take in Victoria and will especially will take on the gardens. Thanks Alina for the great video.
Wow beautiful place, thank you for sharing video and Amaizing view
We LOVED Chinatown when we went! The Victorian Square Market looked nice. That hotel is amazing and it was FREE?! So cool!
Marvelous nature and wonderful food.
Fantastic video
How beautiful! I'm in awe!
I'm so glad you enjoyed Vancouver Island. I went to Butchart Gardens several years ago with my parents and my younger sister and can atest that it was one of the best experiences of my life. The gardens are phenomenal!
Wow, So beautiful! I love the gardens and that fish looked delicious! Victoria/Vancouver Island is definitely somewhere I would love to visit! Glad you are both having a great time!
I hope you do :)
It was so fun to watch back on our time in Victoria! Am so happy the baby deer made it into the cut 🥰 And glad I get a little less awkward on camera as the video progresses, lol
You did a fabulous job!!!
Next stop Hollywood, looking forward to you and Alina`s next video before that though 😄
Hello Alina! 😄🙏👋🌟 I hope your having a fantastic day! This is absolutely a super marvelous beautiful magnificent video! 😁👍❤️👏🇨🇦📹🥇💯💫✨🌟 The city of Victoria looks really amazing! Even the architecture of the buildings in the city is marvelous! The Laurel Point Inn looks really luxurious! Also the food in the restaurants look so delicious! The view of the city of Victoria really is wonderful and the Butchant Gardens looks so truly amazing! I would definitely like to visit the city of Victoria one day. It’s really a wonderful place! Thank you so much Alina to share with us this fantastic super excellent video. You are the best and greatest world traveler adventurer! 😃👍👏✈️🌎📹🗺🧳🥇💯🏆✨🌟 I wish you Alina a wonderful beautiful marvelous blessed day. Take care and be safe Alina. 😊🙏❤️👋🇨🇦👍✨🌟
It certainly is, thank you!
Thank you for sharing one of excellent gardens in the world!!
My pleasure!
Wow Alina You make me pine away for BC. Victoria is amazing
Two lovely ladies out and about in the city of Victoria. Life is so much better with friends. =)
Hi Alina! I love this video! It’s always wonderful to visit Victoria - Canada’s classic English/British capital city. For me, Vancouver and capital Victoria are analogs to Montréal and capital Québec City - Canada’s classic French capital. The Inn at Laurel Point is certainly outstanding, but the Empress Hotel, like the Chateau Frontenac in Québec City, is superbly classic! The Burchart Gardens are amazingly beautiful, well worth the price of admission. Nice to meet you, Laine!
A very nice view and trip in Victoria, British Columbia!🌸🌸🇨🇦🇨🇦❤️❤️
Wow! Really a typical British "Victorian" city. The city is amazing and its street reminds me England. Its hotels are nice and also the food looks very tasty. Your hotel and the restaurant were spectacular. Victoria surroundings are stunning too. Canada is just an awesome country. Thank you very much for this beautiful video.
British architecture is prevalent in most of Canada (excluding Quebec) but Victoria definitely has the most of it.
@@highway2heaven91 Thank you for the info
Loved watching your video on Victoria! Pleased that you both had such a good time in that beautiful city! Brought back many good memories. My grandparents retired there from Saskatchewan in the late fifties and a couple of friends live there now. So was there six times. But have never been to Buchard Gardens. Imagine that. So thx for showing them to me!
Definitely worth checking out sometime!
Well, you certainly know how to get new subscribers. That breaky looked fantabulous. I had to stop the vlog a quarter of the way through. I am planning on visiting Victoria in September. I used to live there 20 years ago, and now I am making my way back. Enough of me rambling on so I am going to finish watching this vlog. Thanks!
Thank you for capturing my hometown in all it's beauty. One of the best vlogs I've EVER seen on Victoria! Butchart Gardens is so beautiful and has so much history. My first job was working in their gift store! :-)
Aw thank you very much! Glad you liked it!
@@AlinaMcleod thx u and com to israel the coin is shekel spasiba the only russian word i kno;;;
Such an amazing City ! Thank you for your video
I live here :) Victoria area has so many other beautiful places to visit as well. Kayaking on the Inner Harbour and the Gorge waterway is a wonderful way to spend an afternoon.
As usual, you have such an eye for capturing beautiful content. Your friend Laine was adorable, and the interactions between the two of you added to the lightness and fun of this video.
Hi Alina. again you made it a spectacular video in Victoria Canada ... we enjoy viewing the beautiful garden nice trip...
I’m glad, thank you!
Canada is definitely not a place to visit if your pockets are empty. Excellent videoing Alina, I love your channel.
Been there and it is really nice
Hello, Alina! How have you been? Traveling, I suppose to, kkkkk! Well, I'd like to tell you Victoria, BC seemed a really nice city to visit the day I can travel to the Vancouver area in the West Canada. BTW, I should say those Canadian sights come out on my TV screen now and then as I use to watch "Love it or List it, Vancouver" on Discovery + channel. To sum up, this was an amazing video to see, and I must say "Thank you, Alina Mcleod!" Greetings from Rio, Brazil! Ah, and also greetings for you charming friend Laine!
Love watching you guys! So glad that you are well!
Looks like an amazing city!
Butchart Gardens is expensive if you just do one day. Fortunately we live here and buy an annual pass which is approx $65 for unlimited visits and it includes discounts on food and gift store items. We feel very lucky to be able to enjoy it whenever we want to.
Awesome views of the city, combined with a very professional and gorgeous vlogger. Thank You Alina.
What a beautiful city, the food looks delicious and the atmosphere is so pleasant and it’s on my list to visit Victoria too, keep going with the wonderful vlogs cause I really appreciate your content Alina, greetings From Brasil🇧🇷 ✨
Thank you very much!
Omg I am shocked! I live in Victoria this was so exciting to see this video pop up on my home! I’ve been watching your South America vlogs and love them!!
Haha I’m so glad!
The reason the Butchart Gardens entry fee is pricey is because the Gardens are privately owned with no taxpayers $ involved. So, like a Dyson vacuum, the Butchart Gardens are overpriced but worth it.
love the bc stuff Alina!
Nice trip ladies
Thanks, Alex!
Nice !!! I was born and raised in Victoria !! I live here in Madison, Wisconsin and am now a dual US and Canadian citizen. Last week I went to London, Ontario and had an amazing time being back in Canada 🇨🇦 for the weekend.
I will have to visit Victoria again soon but it’s so far away from Madison, WI so it will have to be more than just a weekend trip to see my hometown.
Looking forward to the Island.............thks Alina
Hi Alina , I watched your video on Vancouver . Thanks . Xx👍🏴
Welcome to Vancouver Island Alina. Hope you enjoy your visit to a pretty spectacular part of Canada.
Thank you!
All that Harriet and I can say is: WOW! We remember the great food of Victoria and the stunning Gardens. It looks like that has not changed. A return trip to BC is on our agenda. A Great Job
with this video as always. And the musical score was oh so good. It's nice to have a friend like Laine on this trip to share these wonderful moments. Fantastic! Sending you lots of love😍😍😍
Harriet, Jim and Yuki. P.S. Yuki liked it too, especially the mama and baby deer.
Thanks so much guys! Hope little Yuki is doing great
Wow! Two super smart and beautiful women in one video? Thanks much! :) My grandfather's side immigrated from Quebec to the US, went from Couturière to Taylor. They migrated with a preacher that was friends with Lincoln and met with him prior to Lincoln's death. They took me to Victoria from the Portland Oregon area many times and I have revisited as well. I'm only a little into the video.. Hope you show the queens building :)) Namaste beautiful!
Let’s take a trip to Gordon’s farm!
Soon!
Wow you were in the city I live it. Half the time I was looking on your vlog to see it somehow I was in it walking around.
I love going to Victoria for visits. There are so many ways to arrive. I’ve been on the Black Ball ferry from Port Angeles on foot and by car, but there is also a high speed foot ferry from downtown Seattle. I’ve also arrived in Sydney on the ferry from Tswassen in BC, and many times from the US ferry from Anacortes.
I think you can get to Butchart Gardens on a regular bus. I have been on a bus in Brentwood Bay right next to it. I don’t have any memory of how I got there, so it was probably by car. They have a dock, but I don’t know if you can get in that way.
There is another garden sort of like Butchart in Ukraine west of Kyiv that was created by an exiled Polish Count
I can’t count how many times I’ve walked past the Empress hotel, but I’m not sure I’ve been inside. I did really like touring the Parliament and the museum.
Really I just like walking around in the center
Visit the Royal BC Museum
Go north on the island and visit the rain forest
The GARDENS ARE THE MOST AMAZING I HAVE EVER SEEN IN ALL MY LIFE. I WAS THERE IN 1982 with my Mother and Grandmother (who both have passed away). My two little children, my sister and niece and nephew. Memories...✨🍒✨.p.s. my grandmother was in a wheelchair to not have to walk for hrs and I was at the helm and as we were going down a hill the wheelchair picked up speed and I couldn't decrease the speed and miraculously the wheelchair stopped right before we landed in the lake.
Wow!# Super cool views, food and hotel!#
Thank you for visiting my visiting my hometown. There is 3 options to get to Butchard Gardens: your own vehicle, Grey Line tour buses, or the #75 city bus. Plus if you are frequent visitor to the Gardens, you can get an annual pass and works out cheaper, which is great to see the various events through out the year. Events like live performances & light illuminations (which is different in the Summer from the Winter).
This seems to be a very interesting place, I hope I can visit sometime in the future. Seeing and sharing places like this is why I love traveling and make videos so much! And please keep up the great job! Subscribed!!
I actually had my first subway on victoris island many years ago ! Happy Canada Day ! From canadian living in NZ !
Charismatic personality ?😍 Yes, you Alina 💋
Hi Alina ! Very beautiful post ! Thanks for sharing this.
$35 CAD + tax is nothing! The Butchart Gardens are worth every penny and then some! That is only about $26 USD. 🙂 I'm sooooo glad you changed your mind. It's quite mind blowing!
Victoria is gorgeous, even when you don't see the sun for 10 months out of the year.
You must be thinking of Vancouver which gets 48" of annual rainfall, while Victoria gets 24" of rain. Typically it rains at night, is cloudy in the morning, and clears up and sunny in the afternoon. However this spring has been abnormally cool, cloudy, rainy.
@@danieltaylor3396 Yeah, was thinking of Vancouver. Are you saying you can actually see sun in January and February?
ive heard that vancouver gets twice as much rain as victoria & that north vancouver gets twice as much rain as vancouver ~ it was a wet spring but that is good for all the vegetation that suffered so much last year ~ also will help keep forest fires down ~ beacon hill park last summer was so dry that all the meadows & lawns were mowed down which i have never seen before ~ prickly on the butt & sorry i could not lay down in the tall grasses to watch the sky completely hidden from view ~ this time last year bc was on fire all over the place
Very charming and beautiful green, natural - and garden- beauty!
I'm from Saskatchewan also! I'm heading to Victoria in late August :)
beautiful Canada !
oh i love Canada
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Those gardens looked amazing! Also, I learned about oysters in New Orleans when my husband and I went there and spent time with his family in that area and I love oysters now. This trip is very fab indeed! 💕💞💯
It’s funny how the more we try certain foods, the more we tend to like them!
...and "Laine is enjoying the spectacular scenery." ..on her phone! :)
I laughed at that part too 🙈 Was busy posting my own content for the trip 😁
The beach at 0:16 is across the street from where I live on Dallas Rd. Glad you enjoyed the city. Nice video.
buen día, saludos desde Colombia muy buen destino british Columbia debo ir a conocer gracias por compartir.
I'm just coming across your channel today, but binge watching as most of your recent videos are places we've been, are going to, or would like to go.
My wife was born in Curitiba, but her family emigrated to Vancouver when she was 1 year old (there is a large German Mennonite population that lived there and immigrated here). We still live in the area, and are going to Mexico for 3 weeks in December for our 20th anniversary. I first visited Playa del Carmen in 1993 when it was a very small village with 2 telephones and all businesses had a 2 hour afternoon shut down for siesta, and we honeymooned there and have visited since. This time, though, we want to see more. We're definitely spending the first days in Valladolid, which is the first video I found from you. Hotel Mesón del Marqués will be our spurge on the trip. So many of the people that used to go to Playa now go to Isla Mejures, but we're iffy on it. I'll watch all your videos for there tomorrow.
Great content so far!
PS. You don't sound like a good Canadian when you pronounce your mom's town (and where I was born), instead you sound like you're from Toronto :) It's Cal-gree
Haha I lived in Toronto for 7 years. Isla Mujeres was awesome for me and definitely the best beaches right now on the riviera with the seaweed problem. Tulum has horrid for that.
@@AlinaMcleod The seaweed is largely a summer issue though, normally December should be clear of it (unless the globe warms even more, it's floating in from the middle of the ocean and is bad due to warmer waters out there promoting growth). But yes, those who go now definitely recommend the island for that reason. We might do a few days in Mérida, and then do a day trip to Celestún to see the flamingos; but personally I'd just stay a couple of days in that small town after seeing the beaches in Google Street View. Being on the gulf coast, the seaweed doesn't reach them; and being a dinky down you'd have a big patch of beach to yourself. I'm pushing my wife's comfort level to much there though.
I was in Victoria for a conference back in 2004. Very nice place, although I dodn't have the time to see very much. But I remember I had a flight connection from Vancouver and it was the shortest flight I have done in my life. It's like you've barely taken off and you start landing. :-D
Haha yeah very short
12 minutes! One of the shortest scheduled flights in the world. I did it once in a terrible storm and it took 25 minutes. It wasn’t fun.
Thank you Alina🌍
You girls really clean up well Wow very nice, and the Hotel is on my list thank you from Palo Alro Ca
Soo glad !!! I'm in Calg and try to get there once a year. Just unreal how beautiful it is. Check out the turtles basking on the log at beacon hill park! Way too cool
Ooo didn’t hear about that until now!
Is this better than Charlottetown, your visit to the OTHER extreme island part of Canada? Alina really covers Canada. Never Hudson Bay, but from far west to far east.
It would be amazing if you could show more about First Nation Culture because the British Culture you could see more in England :) Thanks for the video!
Well, that was enjoyable and it was wonderful to see you both have a great time, of course another thing you are great at is the sharing of all the different kinds of food available and sometimes you just have to try everything. Hats off to Lane for sharing with you on this trip, it makes it fun to do that sometimes. You both were good sports covering just about everything, and makes us desire to visit Canada on that side which will be new experience for us for sure. Now, after your rest from all that, what are your plans for the next? Of course you know there are a few of us that know more about your plans, but I see NOTHING and I hear NOTHING, In fact I am bound by my promise, but I really don't know NOTHING!!!! 🤞 Be safe, Alina and enjoy yourself and give us more of your wonderful smile!! Chees!!! ❤😎
Haha thanks so much, Michael!
Thanks for the ride, Alina, the architecture there is beautiful and the city seems to be very clean and safe. Seeing you there in Canada makes me curious about the places you are going and I look in google maps here, it’s funny that I found a city in British Columbia named Dawson Creek, which is also the name of a famous series in the end of the 90s.
Haha yup Dawson Creek probably got a boost in tourism after that
@@AlinaMcleod 😹 I bet they were able to take advantage out of that, wonder if the american creators knew about it of if was a coincidence. The name Dawson also caught my attention because in the years 2000 and 2001 I was an exchange student in the city of Dawson Springs, Kentucky.
i miss that place i been there last year.. enjoy!:)
There are no "Parliament" buildings in Victoria - the Parliament buildings are in Ottawa. Victoria has the Legislature buildings ;-)
Two hot babes in Victoria!❤❤ Hope u didn't break too many hearts! 💔 ;)
Thanks for letting us tag along, Laine and Alina! Absolutely beautiful city! The gardens, food, cute streets - wonderful!!! And that hotel. Wow! Victoria and especially Laurel Point are definitely going on my travel list! 👍 Cheers ladies! xo xo
Victoria is very charming. I have been there. But its also insanely EXPENSIVE! $$$$ When are you going on another adventure?
I'll be in Canada for the summer and then somewhere new for the fall.
Alina, you are [ so obviously ] delighted, to be back [ home ] in Canada. As we say, here, in Ireland: 'Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin' [ 'There's no hearth like One's own hearth' ]. Enjoy that roadrip, on Vancouver Island., Girls. #BritishColumbia #WestCoast
Looking forward to your tofino video!!
Just went live!
Sorry girls but in a 20 min (almost 21) video except the fantastic Butchart Gardens I've been only able to see your hotel, your breakfast and your lunch: am I flying from Italy to Victoria (12 hours with connections) just to see the gardens?
Is there anything else to see in the capital city of British Columbia? Maybe less time on food and more time on things worth to visit? Just my humble opinion.
I went there last week! It's a shame I saw your video only once I got back home
Yes nice place
I need to go to Victoria Alina awesome video👍🆒
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If you ever get to Victoria again, I highly recommend Boom and Batten Restaurant. Breathtaking views, food, service, and you can take a fabulous walk there from the Inn at Laurel Point (which I agree is also Amazing!). Enjoy Tofino!
Thanks for the tips!
Thank you so much Alina Mcleod.
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😍 Beautiful.
Do your watch Operator Starsky? Awesome dude that guy
Hey!Alina did you here about the new bill that Canada has Passed? It's Bill C11. HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THIS ?
Red Fish Blue Fish is okay But BARBS over at Fishermans warf is much better.
We hadn’t heard of BARBS. Next time we’ll be sure to compare the two 😋
The breakfasty looking tray at 10;27.. lovely!! was it room service?
Yes, it was. Probably the best room service breakfast I've had in years.
It's so weird to see victoria since I live in saanich (outside of Victoria)
Love your videos ❤️🔥👍
I’ve been to Victoria many times. It’s the closest Canadian city to where I live.
Have a Good Day Alina and Laine..