Thursday June 18, 2015

We chatted to Frances and Alan over a very leisurely breakfast, it was so nice to take our time.

We rode the 5 kms back into Sidney and checked out the bookstores for maps. Sidney is known as an “International Book Town” because it has so many bookstores per capita.

We got a good map of Southern BC. Later after dinner, we sat down and tried to plan the route. B.C. is a very lumpy Province, we will have our work cut-out for us, lots of hills.

I decided I needed a haircut and was really pleased with the result, although it shows more grey now than it did before. I had to buy a colour for it and Ralf will help me colour it when we are in Nanaimo or Vancouver.

Sidney is a nice Town with a vibrant downtown, it was nice to see a lovely downtown with lots of people milling around.

While I was having my haircut, Ralf did some shopping (normal provisions). He chatted to an old fella who said it was drug day in Sidney. All the old folks come in for their drugs! Not pension day, like in England, but drug day.

This is the site of Canada\’s third largest air base in World War 2.  It is now part of the International Airport.

When we got back to Frances and Alan’s place, Alan had printed out a route for us to take tomorrow towards Nanaimo. It is called the Rotary Route, and follows the coast and back roads. He was unable to print the turn-by-turn instructions. I copied and pasted them from the pdf into a word document and emailed them to him. He printed them out for me. They are hoping to do the ride later on in the year with a group of friends that usually ride a short ride together.

We went out for dinner at a very nice Chinese restaurant.