Day 4 - Sidney

This morning we set off to suss out the ferry at Sidney on which we will travel to Vancouver on the first stage of our drive across the Rockies. Then we went in to see Sidney.

This is me and Sidney. He was very quiet and would not tell me the name of his dog.

Jim found a friend of his own but he was positively unfriendly!

Unlike the above 2 citizens of the city of Sidney (small town!), everyone else was very friendly. We did a 5km round walk of the waterfront area and everyone we met said "Good Morning". Sidney is very nice and has some lovely shops and more book shops per capita than the rest of Canada earning it its title of Canada's Book Town.

                                                                                                      

To the left is a view of Sidney harbour. The last Sydney we were in had a bridge and an opera house!              

 In the afternoon we went in to Victoria again to visit the tourist office to get some advice on our trip through the Rockies. We now have a huge amount of literature to go through in order to finalise our itinerary. Our holiday is a little different to usual and, in fact, a little disconcerting as Jim is not wearing a hat. I have to keep reminding him that he is on holiday!