We Went on a British Holiday... in Victoria, Canada?!
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
- We've decided it's time for a proper British holiday. Since we don't have any plans to visit the UK anytime soon, we're recreating that experience in the next best place - Victoria, British Columbia. Our goal is to immerse ourselves in British culture and traditions as much as possible during our time in this charming city. We start by indulging in a quintessential afternoon tea at the renowned Butchart Gardens. We also explore Victoria's picturesque city center, including the Parliament building, Chinatown, and pub scene. Of course, no British holiday is complete without the best fish and chips, which we set out to find. Throughout our adventure, we're determined to fully embrace the UK vibes and make the most of this unique experience while exploring this wonderful seaside city.
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If you loved it in the spring, it’s even better at Christmas! The Magic of Christmas lights throughout the gardens are incredible!
I hope we get the pleasure of you guys back here in the UK again soon 🇬🇧🇺🇲
Hopefully soon. 🤞
I think you, and I are in agreement ..we all the England. .. I would love to live in England as I had mentioned before. My grandmother was born there. The british people are amazing and you cannot beat that countryside...Thanks for sharing.
Welcome to Canada! 🇨🇦 Victoria had been called the most British town outside of Great Britain. 🇬🇧 I hope you enjoyed your stay.
Thanks! We had a wonderful time.
While born in England, I grew up in BC so I have been to Victoria several times. And loved it! I live in the Yukon Territory now, and here at the end of April there is still lots of snow around, and nothing green at all yet. Seeing all the flowers there in March...
I love going to the small town of Sidney on the island. It has art galleries and great places to eat and is right on the water
When I was last there, we had tea at a tea shop within walking distance of downtown and the harbor. It reminded me quite a bit of the small market town tea shops you'd find in the UK. Less of a high or cream tea experience, but a cozy spot for a nice cup and a few treats. Scones of course, but also things like Victoria sponge, fruit cake, and sausage rolls. Much cheaper than a fancy tea.
Great vid guys bought back lots of memories fron the 80s.
Wifes cousin lives 10 minutes from Victoria.
She's a patron of the gardens.
We hired a boat and took a trip around the locals Islands .
The one thing I unfortunately missed out on was the early morning seaplane mail flights out of Vancouver.
You could book a seat and it went up to Kamloops etc.
Ended up after taking the ferry to Seattle driving in a circle up to Lake louis stayed over night i the chatau hotel.
Cost a fortune but what a view up to the glacier.
Ended up passing Kamloops and ferry back to Victoria.
A truely fabulous holiday .
Thanks guys
Lee & Christine
Canada is on my bucket list. I may have to visit Victoria. It looks beautiful ❤
It's so beautiful. Vancouver is nice too, but Victoria is really special.
I didn't realise that Victoria BC was quite so British. So glad you don't have to travel far from home for some British cuisine and it sounds like you could just pop over from your home in the US for a Sunday roast.
Love this video ! I live in Victoria and worked at the gardens for a summer years ago! You’ll have to come back to see them in their glory in the spring/summer and also the magic of Christmas at Butchart !
Lovely video! For your information, Victoria is named after Queen Victoria.
You should do it again in the summer - or shortly after school goes back after the summer, when the weather is warm and the streets are still looking good. Victoria is known for its hanging baskets, they spend a lot of time and money on them and they are pretty spectacular.
If you had kept going through Fan Tan Alley, you would have emerged on Lower Johnson St, which was - with China Town - the original part of the city, the buildings along there are lovely, once mostly brothels and hotels for the Gold Rush, they are now the trendy shopping area for Victoria. Also around that part of town are a couple of market squares that usually have one sort of event on on summer weekends.
Also, on Government St, not far from where you are is the Rogers chocolate store, it has all its original fittings and fixtures - wooden cabinetry, stained glass, etc. they used to ship chocolates to the UK for the queen
Hi. That brought back some great memories. I’ve been to Victoria several times. Most times I used the ferry from Vancouver. That is a very scenic ferry ride, in and out of the Islands of the gulf. Taking the very colourful little boats to get around the harbour was very satisfying. At night the provincial office is so pretty. One time I was there a branch of M&S was open, unfortunately the branch has closed now, shame. I think Vctoria is my favourite Canadian city.
Every time I get to Victoria our tour always includes the beoutiful Butchart Gardens. One year I went in February, there wasn’t much snow but when we got inland on our ways to Calgary it was much worse. Banff & Jasper was really deep snow. On Lake Louise it was completely frozen and I walked over the whole lake. The big chunks of ice they used to mah=ke an ice castle had the topaz tint to them.
Looks like a great place to spend a few days. That fish looked delicious.
It was so nice and the fish was amazing!
Loved this video!! One of your best! (Although they’re always good)
Victoria looks amazing!
As a Brit I’d love to follow in your footsteps and do much of your itinerary
Hi guys! Great video! I lived just outside of Victoria from 2001 to 2007 - I absolutely loved it! Growing up on the Canadian prairies where the winters are horrendous, Victoria was a wonderful escape from that. The whole of Vancouver Island is stunning! Miss it a lot. Thanks for bringing back great memories. Places to see in Victoria are: Craigdarroch Castle, Beacon Hill Park, Royal BC Museum (it has an Imax theatre), whale watching tours, and so much more.
Victoria Canada looked wonderful. Buildings, shops and gardens, looks like the UK.Great video!
It's a really beautiful city! Thanks for watching. 😀
Just have to inject here. It’s Victoria, British Colombia or Victoria, BC. Not Victoria, Canada. That’s like saying Seattle, United States or San Francisco, United States. I’ve heard people saying cities in Canada like this many times.
That video brings back good memories of a trip I did with a good friend in the 1990s when we lived in Portland. We did the same ferry trip from Port Angeles, WA, to Victoria. We stayed at the Empress and also visited Butchart Gardens and generally enjoyed the city a lot. It was also in the springtime and we were lucky that it didn't rain much at all. I'd love to go back for another visit.
Hi both , those scones looked so good, thay have made SUCH a good job with the gardens. TAKE CARE AND have a good trip . 😊😊👍👍👍
Lovely look at the Buchardt Gardens and a wonderful cream tea i've lots of those in the UK also a tradition everyday on the Cunard Queens.
I love that you have been carry around a wooden chip fork !
Looks like a really nice place. Glad you mentioned the chips with the fish and chips are not the same as the UK. They looked like frozen chips.
The chips were good. I don't think they were frozen, but definitely not the same.
That pinky/red plant you didn’t know is called a cyclamen ☺️ lovely to grow and quite easy too - buy one next time you go to a proper garden centre!
Oh thank you! If they're easy to grow, it sounds like a plant for me. 😂
Looks great thanks 👍👍👍👍
Victoria, and the whole of Vancouver Island, used to be relaxing, slow-paced holiday destinations. Butchard Gardens (pronounced bw-shard), the Forestry Museum near Ladysmith, Tofino/Ucluelet/Long Beach, and Parksville were all great getaways. Today, Victoria is rather kitsch, and effectively an English theme park for US tourists. I suggest you stray no further south than Chemainus for a real Vancouver Island experience. For laid-back Lotus Land, try the Gulf Islands. 🇨🇦
Great video as always, looks like you both had a good time. Victoria looks wonderful and that would be the kind of place I would visit if I ever visit Canada.
Brilliant video
Great video, enjoyable, i must go someday
Love it...great job you two
Thanks, Mark!
You can take the Magics out of England but you can't take the English out of the Magics. That beautiful garden even looked like a National Trust! And that pub!!
By the way, Mr. GST has serious t-shirt envy for J's Mandolorian top!
My dad was a curling skip, and he went to the Brier in 1958 in Victoria. He stayed at the Empress!
You must revisit those gardens later in the year.
I see that you have the British Weather
If you come back couple places to try is fish on 5th in sidney and Benjos tacos its on cook in the empire donuts they make authentic birrias.
I have lived in Victoria all my life & I pronounce Butchart as you did in the video, “Butch art” as you said like Butch Cassidy. That is coming from a Victoria native.
Spon 🎉 good for you guys 💪🏼✌🏽🏴❤️
When are you two coming back to the UK ? Muchly enjoyed this video Thanks
No plans yet, but hopefully before the end of the year.
This whole video vibe reminds us of us currently trying to do everything Japanese ever since we returned. Love it!
I love how she took such an industrial place and turned it beautiful at those gardens. And the High Tea looked delicious. What were in those white boxes btw? Truffles to go?
We love Best Western because they're pet friendly as well. That's awesome that they sponsored y'all. Victoria looks awesome and now we'd love to go check it out. That miniature museum is our jam and we would have enjoyed it as well.
And now I'm craving Fish and Chips. And yeah, those were huge pieces and would have shared.
Thank you for the post card as always. It was awesome seeing it in video. So pretty.
We've been doing good! We're hoping to make it back to Japan in 2025 for Chads 40th! We'd be flying out of Canada this time. If you ever have a chance to go, go. It's absolutely stunning. ❤️
Lol. I think the boxes had almond truffles if I remember correctly. The miniature museum was great! We weren't sure what to expect, but they had so many displays. We've been joking with our friends about a Japan 2025 trip. We have to make it there at some point, just not sure how soon. Definitely must be cool if you're already planning a return trip! Will you visit some of the same places or are you looking at visiting different things (or a mixture of both)?
@@TheMagicGeekdom If we go in February, we are only going to stick around Tokyo this time as we would only be there a week. We will be doing a mix of things we did before (Tokyo Disneyland Resort and FujiQ Highland) and new stuff as well. If Japan is somewhere you guys have been wanting to visit, we highly recommend going.
I always love watching your travels. Where are you heading for your next adventure? 🙂
Thank you! We just made our way down to Arizona, so maybe we'll make some videos around here?
Miss you guys not being in the UK, hope to see you back and if you do come to South Wiltshire x
I think you will avoid the backlash of the Cornish for putting cream before jam on that scone as it wasn't clotted cream! 🤣🤣🤣. Great vlog, looked delicious. I live in London, and guess what? Its raining! 🤣. I might get fish and chips for lunch today. Decisions decisions!
Victoria my favoirite place ❤
Cream first then jam?!?!?! Noooo! 😂
Oh, careful - Devon and Cornwall nearly waged a bloody war for this!
Argghh! Jam first 😬
Depends if one is a Devonian or a Kernowvian, as someone from the Home Counties I'm not bothered, tastes great either way.
All tastes the same in your mouth
Gotta get that cream on thicker for sure ❤ and Its definitely "scone like gone" officially now I believe 😊
Not in the Midlands, here it's "scone like stone" - not "scon like gon"
Don't think it made it in the video, but I definitely ordered more cream. 😂
My "Devonshire dumpling" grandmother used to say, "When it's on the plate it's a 'skoan'. When you've eaten it, it's 'skon'." 😅
Hello Cara and Jeremy. I did go to Vancouver, but not to Victoria when I came to that area years ago. It was obviously my loss, but three months to tour North America did not leave time to go everywhere, so I make do watching videos like this and Endless Adventure. This was really fascinating. The gardens were like a place we go on holiday in Cornwall, out of season too, when the dogs can go on the beach.
3 months in North America is both a long time to see a lot, and not enough time to see everything. I lived 300 miles away for much of my life and only visited Victoria for the first time, but it's a wonderful city and I highly recommend visiting if you find yourself in North America again.
@@TheMagicGeekdom We did the trip on Greyhound, so got to see a lot. I used to joke at work, by saying "Been there". The reply would come "What's it like". My response would be "It looked nice from the bus station".
By the time I got to Vancouver, my family there had moved up the B.C. coast, so I missed them. Vancouver was beautiful and I caught a roller blader in Stanley Park, who was headed over a cliff edge. Being in the right place, half a world from home was like something from Quantum Leap, but luckily, this Al was not a hologram.
I like the circus world one. nice way to pass an hour
I ve just seen the name of the video guys.
Can yoi please tell me and my partner don't you have a wonderful time before we start watching. Ps love you guys from Chester uk
Duncan, Coombe and Malahat
You peeps might enjoy looking into, like, half a dozen Ontario towns and cities with UK-related history and traditional Victorian looking main streets, and then Toronto as a centrepiece.. as a Brit, the feeling I got the first night of my first time in Toronto of “Why do I feel like I’m in London but in North America?!”, and the stereotypical Victorian downtowns in smaller cities like Guelph (and nearby tourist spot, Elora Mills, which is strikingly similar to somewhere in the Lake District or Scotland!) is almost eerie, in a nice way, and it all helps connect the dots with things like the 1812 War etc.. super interesting for Anglophiles, I promise!
Toronto even has neighbourhood fish and chip places, not like “Hey look, we’re British!”, just because the history is so intertwined that having a “local chippy” is, and always has been, a thing! My favourites so far have been Seawitch and Hooky’s but there are dozens, even lowkey ones in blue collar neighbourhoods that look EXACTLY like a typical UK council-estate chippy!
Love your videos. How did you get from the ferry to Butchart Gardens ? And back to Victoria proper?
Nice Video, thanks. Btw. my favorite band ever is from Victoria B.C. "No Means No" 😀
Oh cool! I haven't heard of them, but I just saw on Wiki that they have a collaborative album with Jello Biafra. We'll have to check them out!
The broken bristish get fam in Canada where lumberjacks lovely people never got there 💔💪🏼✌🏽🏴❤️
i get the feeling you guys are missing the uk also scones and tea and rain. yep looks similar to uk. also those do not look like chips. more like fries. but i suppose make do what you have available. love the vid.
We are certainly missing the UK! Hopefully, we can make it back soon, but this was a decent substitute. And the fries were good, but definitely not chips.
Victoria is named after Queen Victoria. It is not a parliament building it is a legislature building. The Parliament building is in the capital city of Canada Ottawa. Canada is the second largest country in the world. Lots to explore.
Actually, the provincial building in Victoria is called the Parliament Building, an outlier among the other provinces. From the government website: “Welcome to the Parliament Buildings, home to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia where elected representatives - called Members of the Legislative Assembly or MLAs - meet to shape the future of the province by debating and passing the laws that govern British Columbia.”
too bad you didn't make it to beacon hill park and oak bay. the band nomeansno is originally from victoria.
How have you found going back to American food after eating European food for a while
what on earth...its Jam 1st on your scone. Have the Cornish taught you nothing ? x lol
#jamfirst please
Steak sliders on an English cream tea?? 🤦
Ginger in the jam?? 🤷♂️
You both enjoy the UK so, why not move ?
If it was easier to do, we probably would move there.
You would definately be warmly welcomed if you ever did. Looking to head over to Chicago to see relatives in the summer, and on into Canada BC to various places with Victoria now on the list thanks to your excellent Vlog.