Slow Travel and Food and Travel Blog for Trips to Savor
Good pizza and pasta are available at Zambri's on Yates Street in Victoria on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. However, you have to know this beforehand, because from the outside the restaurant on the ground floor of a high-rise office building with its large window front looks rather inconspicuous.
In fact, it's no wonder tea plays such a big role in Victoria. This is part of the founding of British fur traders and the seat of the colonial administration. Tea is almost a national drink in the UK regions of the world. It is no different in Victoria.
Rarely has anything surprised and impressed me as much as the Shaw Ocean Discovery Center in Sidney BC on Vancouver Island. The diversity of the underwater creatures, but above all their color palette, takes your breath away. All the yellow, blue, pink, white, violet and other colors that were swimming, crawling and gliding around.
The best cider on Vancouver Island comes from the Heritage apples that Sea Cider uses to make its wine. You can test this at a cider tasting at the Sea Cider Farm in Saanichton north of Victoria. Let yourself be surprised by the apple wines from Vancouver Island.
