Woken in the very early hours by a text message from our tenant in London because 'all the lights are not working' and after a brief exchange to ascertain that he had checked the breaker panel managed to contact our friendly local electrician who popped round and sorted the problem within about half an hour. Even I was impressed with the speedy resolution of the problem - and £30 for someone to trip the one main breaker switch which the tenant had missed was probably worth it.
While we didn't see an orca on our boat or ferry trips, Linda found these guys just across from our room at the Union Club in Victoria
Taking the ferry from Swartz Bay we had a great view of some of the Gulf Islands
before arriving at Tsawassen and onto the TransCanada for our drive to the Okanagan Valley. It was a longer drive than we had expected but once we left the coastal plain at Hope and started the climb up highway 3 towards Princeton and on to Penticton, the scenery was spectacular - and some of the road building projects were even more surprising.
There was very little traffic and we arrived at
Quidni Estate Winery just before the office closed so that they could serve us a glass of cool white wine while they showed us to our room. This is a tiny winery - only 3 acres of vines - and there are only three guest rooms in upper floor of the main building but our room was very comfortable and had all you needed.
Our host had booked us a table for dinner at the Hillside winery just a short walk up the hill on a sunny evening where we had a very good meal with matched wines - the perfect end to a very long day.
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