 | The Empress is the Empress
2009-07-29, Victoria, Canada. By: moreysci | | Late entry:
Victoria, the vestiges of the Scots and British Empire. Horse and cart rides, ferry excursions, whale watching and successful fishing for salmon. Grand is Grand is the Empress. Butch... |
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| Buchart Gardens
2008-07-16, Victoria, Canada. By: acp | | Nanna and Harry visited the Buchart Gardens a few years back, so I went there to see what it was all about. I found out these are the gardens a well-to-do lady designed and created in the 'olden days... |
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 | back in action...
2007-05-10, Victoria, Canada. By: dinitick | | so Joel and I have made it back to the coldest place on earth! It is freezing here, even when the sun is out. Not working that much as both of our jobs are a little slow on hours but that should pic... |
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| The stress and the loathing
2007-02-20, Victoria, Canada. By: dinitick | | This is the entry that comes before the wave of entries of madness, excitement and sleep deprivation that will follow as of March 1st, 2007. Nadine is going to be in Vancouver for 3 days before flyin... |
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 | Victoria
2005-09-09, Victoria, Canada. By: etoile | | Today was hectic. I woke up late (11am, but only because we regained an hour overnight by leaving the Alaska time zone) and ran upstairs to the Lido deck to catch my favorite muesli before it was take... |
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 | Update
2006-07-20, Victoria, Canada. By: spidercat | | We had to leave Comox in a hurry, the local media found out about the hostage rescue in the showers. We went south to Victoria, this is the capital of British Columbia, it takes 20 minutes on a bus fr... |
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| Big Country, small world...
2006-07-20, Victoria, Canada. By: spidercat | | We arrived at Fort Victoria RV Park in the early evening after a slow drive down the east coast. We stopped at Shawnigan Lake and had a swim, embarrasing Ruairi with our Mexican wave! When we arrived ... |
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 | My last Entry
2005-08-30, Victoria, Canada. By: robert | | Well, its all coming to an end. I'm not leaving for a few days, but the internet gets turned off tomorrow. So I thought I better write something.
Really, really looking forward to Vegas, Tahiti et... |
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| I Quit My Job
2005-08-12, Victoria, Canada. By: robert | | Thats right. I quit. Juggy has gone off to Hawaii for his 21st birthday, and they had me painting a 3 story high apartment building all by myself. They budgeted it for 150 hours and it would probab... |
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| Out to Sooke with the Bosses Truck
2005-07-30, Victoria, Canada. By: robert | | How are we all? I'm good.
The weather has been so nice over here. Everyday for the last few weeks has been sunny and hot. Around 23-28 degrees. Which at times can be a bit too much for painting... |
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| Canada Day
2005-07-09, Victoria, Canada. By: robert | | Oh Canada. Canada day was nuts. So many people everywhere. The whole city was packed with people on the streets and in the bars. I was happy to be a Canadian for the day. Me and Jugs started with... |
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| The Broken Window
2005-06-22, Victoria, Canada. By: robert | | Hi everybody. It's been a smashing good few weeks.
The broken window: We came home from a party around 3am, and our front window was smashed. Johnny had gone home early and we first thought that... |
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| Killing the budgets
2005-05-11, Victoria, Canada. By: robert | | Hi all. How's your part of the world? My part is all good.
Paintings going really well. We knocked off a 130 hour job in 105 hours this week, so we get paid for 65 hours this week. That will br... |
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 | We Finished Our First Job
2005-05-27, Victoria, Canada. By: robert | | Thats right. Me and Jugs finished our first job. Monday was a public holiday, Victoria Day, so we started the job on Tuesday. It was budgeted to be finished by Thursday, but it took us untill Friday... |
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| Paint Pros
2005-05-20, Victoria, Canada. By: robert | | Hello everyone. Slowly coming together now. Jugs and I started work on tuesday and it is pretty good. Tuesday through to friday was training on a house not far from where we live. The boss slowly ... |
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| Painter Rob
2005-05-04, Victoria, Canada. By: robert | | I'm a painter. I start on the 16th of May. A little later than I wanted but at least I have a job. So I have a few more days to lay around in the sun. Moneys getting a bit short, but I'll keep. Me... |
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| Welcome to Victoria
2005-04-23, Victoria, Canada. By: robert | | Bye Bye Big White, Hello summer.
Left Big White with 15cm of fresh snow on the ground and headed for new and exciting things. First up was the staff golf/drinking day. Golf was fun. I got a bird... |
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