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[Matt R.]

Dude, I keep telling people downtown Victoria is like France and also Dubai!

[Mike K.]

There’s your parking lot design team right there.

[Matt R.]

The tourist info/milestones building really is like a miniaturized Burj Khalifa.

[aastra]

 

Dude, I keep telling people downtown Victoria is like France and also Dubai!

 

No doubt, but with a bit of Thessaloniki and Antananarivo mixed in. Unfortunately, the whole "Prague of the Pacific" thing has been dialed down a bit in recent years. But as we all know, less Prague = more Savannah, so it's all good.

 

FYI: you don't need to "dude" me. Unlike some other forumers on this board who shall rename unidentified, I tend to listen respectfully.

[aastra]

Youtube channel Alina Mcleod
 

 

Description: 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.

 

Imagine that. At least two days.

 

 

funny-because-it's-true comment:

I was in Victoria for a conference back in 2004.  Very nice place, although I didn'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.

[aastra]

Youtube channel Aly Smalls
 

 

...on Vancouver Island, although I know some people also call it Victoria Island. It's posh, it's elegant, it's also known as little olde England...

 

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We're going to explore the city for a few days...

 

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It's the perfect balance of a refined, urban city with access to the rugged outdoors within minutes.

...it kind of reminds me of San Francisco, and you're about to see why.

 

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Victoria... has the second highest number of restaurants per capita in North America... (aastra says: or does it?)

[aastra]

Market Square seems to be getting a lot of good press in recent travel vids. Not sure if that would be organic or not, but it seems like it is. I don't mean they're raving on an on about it. But they're often showing it as one of those neat things you can discover as you're walking around.

[Mike K.]

A friend living in Toronto that I went to university with messaged me today. We haven’t spoken in a couple of years. He asked me what on earth was going on in Victoria, he heard way out there it was a troubled city now.

[Victoria Watcher]

A lot of details and numbers in this article, it's good.

 

https://www.timescol...hutdown-6302100

[Victoria Watcher]

 

 

 

 

 

What do you say we build an underwater tunnel attraction here?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It would animate the Songhees with a bit more pedestrians. 

 

 

 

 

At night it could have additional lighting.

 

 

 

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 12 January 2023 - 08:41 AM.

[lanforod]

because we don't live in the Caribbean. It'd be dark, dirty and you wouldn't see squat.

[Victoria Watcher]

OK, ok.  How about a fishing pier?  With gear rentals, licenses (are they required?) and instructors?

 

Catch and release or whatever.  

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 12 January 2023 - 08:53 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

How about some kids carnival games at the harbour?

 

 

 

[Nparker]

How about a once-per-month dunk tank featuring Victoria's mayor and council? Even a nominal fee for participants should be able to raise enough to repair the pothole-ridden streets.

 

[Victoria Watcher]

The Harbour Ferries Christmas thing was not very well received.

 

https://www.tripadvi..._Vancouver.html

 

Sounds like an average of 2 stars out of 5, but some say it could be better next year with tweaks and just more content.

 

Far from a home run.

[Victoria Watcher]

[lanforod]

How about a once-per-month dunk tank featuring Victoria's mayor and council? Even a nominal fee for participants should be able to raise enough to repair the pothole-ridden streets.

DunkTank.jpg

 

Can we get Trudeau in there? I'd pay for that.

Edited by lanforod, 12 January 2023 - 11:09 AM.

[Nparker]

Can we get Trudeau in there? I'd pay for that.

I'm not sure I'd be able to contain myself to just throwing a ball if he was in the tank.

[aastra]

 

What do you say we build an underwater tunnel attraction here?

 

Rotating tunnel walls with an elevated stationary platform running down the middle and a bunch of mean ol' bigfoots running amok... what could possibly go wrong? Gentlemen, can we even build this? Do we have the technology? I appreciate your creativity but we need to think of something better, stronger, faster.

[aastra]

 

With gear rentals, licenses (are they required?) and instructors?

 

Catch and release or whatever.

 

I'm no expert but catching and releasing instructors would probably violate employment standards.

 

You guys are so close to a good idea: how about catching and releasing politicians into rotating tunnels full of angry bigfoots?