SECOND day at Victoria, woke up early again, but this time was for breakfast at a highly reviewed Blue Fox Cafe (http://www.thebluefoxcafe.com/) in Victoria. We tried to be first customers so we didn't have to wait in-line for too long. The cafe opened at 8am. We arrived at around 7.45am, yet, there were already 2 groups of customers in front of us! After the cafe opens, we were led to a table next to a huge glass window. The decor of the cafe was very nice, with colorful dishes on the tables and red brick walls. Too bad I was charging my camera in the hostel and so didn't take any pictures. The servers were very friendly and upbeat! They started us off with house coffee. It took us a while to make up our minds on what to order since everything sounded so yummy! In the end, Sarah had smoked salmon egg benedict/Eggs Delmonico ($13), a savory dish, while I got Oranges del Sol, which was French toast with cinnamon, vanilla velvet sour cream sauce, fresh orange segments, toasted pecan and syrups ($12)! I'd say it's the BEST french toast I had in the life yet! It was so orangy that it made the whole dish tasted so refreshing even though it was a sweet dish! Besides, the vanilla cream so creamy but not to overwhelming! The whole dish is really a piece of art! Wish I know how to make it!! I was so satisfied with the meal that I was in real good mood the rest of the day. See, breakfast is really the most important meal of the day!
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| Eggs Delmonico |
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| Oranges del Sol |
After the meal, we went back to hostel since we needed to check out by 11am. Then, we started exploring Victoria downtown. The first destination was the Miniature World museum ($13), which held many displays of historical events or random story characters with tiny little figurines and building models. I actually learned some history about Vancouver and Victoria through the exhibition.
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| British VS US armies during the Revolutionary War |
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| Tiny figures VS thumb! |
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| Castles around the world |
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| Jack and Jill |
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| Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall.. |
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| London Bridge |
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| Interior of a model castle |
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| Circus is coming to town! |
So, after spending 1.5 hour in the museum, we went to walk around Victoria harbor waterfront. The weather was still gloomy as yesterday.
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| The Empress hotel, one of the oldest hotel in Victoria, also where the Miniature World located. |
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| The Capital Building.. gloomy weather.. |
Canada has many nice postbox, all painted in red! So festive!
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| Sarah sending postcard! Greetings from Victoria :) |
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| Roger's Ice Cream was all around Canada. But 1st store is in Victoria. | |
We basically walked around downtown, visiting several souvenir store the rest of the day.
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| Pink building! |
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| The Christmas Village that sells Christmas products all year round. We went there around Xmas so didn't really get the feel XD |
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| Nice little bakery opposite the hostel |
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| Victoria City Hall & a cool sport card | | | | |
We catched bus 70 at around 2.40pm to the ferry terminal and managed to board the 4pm Ferry back to Vancover. At first,we planned to take 5pm ferry but the bus trip was shorter then we thought :) Though the ferry was a little different from the one from yesterday, it still has cafe and such.. We spent 1hour in cafe eating and sleep for the rest of the trip.. tired..
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| Poutine, fries with gravy and cheese, Canadian traditional dishes |
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| The car deck inside the ferry, not that diffirent from the Penang ferries |
We reached Vancouver early evening. So, we went to explore Vancouver downtown since we're not that tired anymore.. Stay tuned for the next update!
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