Just posting the pictures from the Victoria bit of our recent trip to Canada. Gorgeous weather. I bought myself a racquet and played a lot of bad tennis, ate a lot of burgers at Barb's and lazed about. It amazed me how quiet it was there. My mother lives near Ogden Point and there seems to be no traffic along Dallas Road after 10pm. And I don't think I heard a single siren all week. It made me terribly worried that Victoria has no emergency services. Although, come to think of it, I did see a couple of paramedics on bicycles. That's it though. No police, no fire trucks, no ambulances, no SWAT team.
On the other hand, there was very little screaming and smashing of bottles outside my window at night. It was all very alien compared with Dalston.
Thank God, dinner at my aunt's was a typically noisy affair. It reassured me my ears were working.