{"id":3996,"date":"2017-07-05T02:35:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T01:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/?p=3996"},"modified":"2017-07-05T02:35:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T01:35:09","slug":"museum-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/05\/museum-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slept in a bit today. Well, as much as we can sleep in as we&#8217;re still a bit jetlagged. So up around 7 (technically awake well before 7, but we were sleeping in damn it!)&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Headed out and walked around the coast a bit &#8211; past Fisherman&#8217;s Wharf and along past the Coast Guard station and then back onto the path. Saw lots out at sea, but no binoculars or telephoto lens so not sure what was out there that we saw! But it is another lovely sunshiny day. Then we headed up the Trans Canadian Hwy, starting at Mile 0 (yep, Joe took photos, having waited for the family that were posing at the sign in every possible configuration &#8211; &#8220;right now, just the boys . . . &#8220;) and stopping when we reached the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca\/\">Royal BC Museum<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Had a coffee and light breakfast, then headed into the museum proper. And spent hours there. Only two floors but they have a lot on them! Well worth a visit. Stayed until our feet wore out completely, then headed further into downtown. Found a lovely little coffee\/cafe place and had lunch. Then did some shopping, so I now have a new pair of walking sandals and a hat.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We were tired so we finally took one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.victoriaharbourferry.com\/tours-services\/water-taxi\">harbour taxis<\/a> back to the hotel &#8211; hooray! They are like little bathtub toys and I&#8217;ve been wanting to ride in one since I first saw it. So a lovely little puttputt across the harbour back to the hotel, where we got online and&nbsp;booked hotels for the rest of our time in Canada. Getting ready to have a light dinner, then pack for the drive to Salmon Arm tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slept in a bit today. Well, as much as we can sleep in as we&#8217;re still a bit jetlagged. So up around 7 (technically awake well before 7, but we were sleeping in damn it!)&nbsp; Headed out and walked around the coast a bit &#8211; past Fisherman&#8217;s Wharf and along past the Coast Guard station [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4T97-12s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4136,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/09\/quiet-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":3996,"position":0},"title":"Quiet Day","date":"Monday, 9 December 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Joe is back to work, poor Joe. So back to up and out for breakfast. Found a new place toward the office which is really nice and may well become our breakfast place this week. Crisp hot toast, yay! After breakfast, waved Joe off to the office and headed out.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Frog Blog&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4120,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/04\/more-work\/","url_meta":{"origin":3996,"position":1},"title":"More Work","date":"Wednesday, 4 December 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"J: Got up, had breakfast, went to work. Left work, met up with Kathleen then headed out to have an Egyptian meal with friends in Newtown.\u00a0 K: Got up and had breakfast with Joe, then we headed opposite directions along Liverpool Street. He went to work and I went to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Travel&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":527,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/01\/fossils\/","url_meta":{"origin":3996,"position":2},"title":"Fossils","date":"Monday, 1 July 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Not the ones at Glastonbury, but the ones along the south coast! We're off to the Jurassic coast! But first to Portsmouth, after a night of watching the Rolling Stones at Glastonbury (that was pretty wonderful!) (oh, not live, just the BBC coverage. Unfortunately as it looked pretty amazing!) We\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Travel&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2645,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/14\/joes-reward\/","url_meta":{"origin":3996,"position":3},"title":"Joe&#8217;s Reward","date":"Wednesday, 14 September 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Today was museum day. Got up earlier and got out and on the way to Museuminsel. Once off the S-bahn Joe said we were early (we only had about 40 minutes to get there! But Joe said early!) so we stopped for coffee and bread. And then we could get\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Frog Blog&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":496,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/03\/copenhagen-card\/","url_meta":{"origin":3996,"position":4},"title":"COPENhagen Card","date":"Tuesday, 3 July 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"So we bought the Copenhagen card (or cOPENhagen as it's called) yesterday and used it for the first time today. First I had to wake up Joe - if you lie very still and just stare at a sleepy person they squinch their eyes shut! 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