Name your favourite restaurant
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Oh good Talloola - I'm sure you'll enjoy it - hope it's a nice day - you can wander around looking at all the unique houseboats while you wait for your meal. Quite a nice way to spend an afternoon.
Yes it is. I will have most of the day, as my husband has to have an angiogram (sp?), at
Royal Jubilee, and it will be a very long day, and I can't be with him all day, so I will go there for lunch, and I will park
a ways away, so that I can have a good walk.
He is going to have surgery to replace a valve in his heart, so this procedure is prep.
for that upcoming event, kind of nerv racking, but outcome is bright, so I have to
rely on that to keep positive about it. (I'll still enjoy my fish and chips.);-)
Oh Talloola - I'm sorry to hear your visit is under such difficult circumstances.
... if it's a nice stroll you'd like then I will tell you about the other part of my ritual when I visit Victoria - after stuffing ourselves silly at Barb's we go to the Breakwater to try and walk a bit of it off - it's only a couple blocks away from Fisherman's Wharf.
I actually prefer to do this walk by myself - the wind, the smell of the ocean, somehow it's very therapeutic for me. I used to live a block away from there and found myself walking that breakwater at least once a day. I still miss it.
It's only about 40 minutes if you're going slowly - half hour tops if you walk a bit more briskly.
Under the circumstances, this might be the perfect place to spend a bit of time while you're waiting to go see your husband after surgery. There's also a nice little beach at the base of the breakwater with all kinds of driftwood logs you can sit on and just immerse yourself in the the sounds and smells of ocean. It always humbles, yet replenishes me.
You will let us know so we can keep you both in our thoughts that day won't you please?
Here's a nice pic of the breakwater.
... if it's a nice stroll you'd like then I will tell you about the other part of my ritual when I visit Victoria - after stuffing ourselves silly at Barb's we go to the Breakwater to try and walk a bit of it off - it's only a couple blocks away from Fisherman's Wharf.
I actually prefer to do this walk by myself - the wind, the smell of the ocean, somehow it's very therapeutic for me. I used to live a block away from there and found myself walking that breakwater at least once a day. I still miss it.
It's only about 40 minutes if you're going slowly - half hour tops if you walk a bit more briskly.
Under the circumstances, this might be the perfect place to spend a bit of time while you're waiting to go see your husband after surgery. There's also a nice little beach at the base of the breakwater with all kinds of driftwood logs you can sit on and just immerse yourself in the the sounds and smells of ocean. It always humbles, yet replenishes me.
You will let us know so we can keep you both in our thoughts that day won't you please?
Here's a nice pic of the breakwater.
Oh Talloola - .
Here's a nice pic of the breakwater.
I most certainly will take that walk, I spend much of my life walking by the ocean, or the
river here in Courtenay, I couldn't live away from the ocean, I love it.
This angiogram isn't the surgery, but prep for the surgery, which will happen over the
next couple of months.
Thanks for your wishes, we have talked to others who had this surgery, and they say
they felt so much better, as soon as they woke up from surgery, as the fatigue that
is caused from a 'lazy' valve is 'gone', immediately.
No, they are in there for good. It would probably take open heart surgery to remove them. They are a little wire mesh cylinder that can be expanded inside a blood vessel where there is a near blockage.
Isn't it amazing what they can do now, I remember when they could hardly even touch a
heart, and didn't know how to fix anything that was wrong with it, they've come a long way.
Anyway, there is a pub just south of Woodgrove, and I have forgotton the name of it,
but they have excellent food, and also great fish and chips too. We've been there many
times. It's right near Quality Foods, is it 'longwood', I'm not sure.
We live not too far away from the Longwood. It is not a bad place and the food is pretty good. I just feel it just doesn't have the character to be a good pub. Have you been to the Crow and Gate? out in Cedar? I think it is the best pub in B.C.....Even if they don't serve fish and chips...............But I haven't seen them all yet.....:lol:
No, I haven't been there, and I don't know where Cedar is either, but I would certainly
like to go there next time we are in Nanaimo for lunch.
Here is the pub we are visiting today for lunch:
http://www.foxandhoundsnanaimo.com/menu.html
We've never been there but we are told they do great fish and chips. The rest of the menu is pure English pub fare. There are photos in the link. The red phone box is a nice touch. Maybe it's a Tardis.....LOL
http://www.foxandhoundsnanaimo.com/menu.html
We've never been there but we are told they do great fish and chips. The rest of the menu is pure English pub fare. There are photos in the link. The red phone box is a nice touch. Maybe it's a Tardis.....LOL
My wife and I just had lunch at the Fox and Hounds pub. The beer was good, the fish and chips was only fair.. I had two pieces of fish and they were identical in size and shape which led me to think that they came from M & Ms or some other commercial establishment that produces perfectly cylindrical fish. The place has all hard walls and hard floors and hard furniture so it is more than a bit noisy when it is busy. Jan had a "Cheddar Plowman"(assorted cheese and pickles with a salad and fresh bread) that she said was very good This pub rates an okay but it doesn't come close to the Crow and Gate.
Sorry to snap everyone's neck starboard. Here in my town, Oshawa, ON., we have a great little fine dinning place called Harpo's. They have a varied menu but they definitely have Greek owners. When you sit down they bring you a small block of goat cheese, some sour dills and some real garlic bread. In the winter we sit near the fire place and in the summer in the solarium.
Now that I think of it we are in debt to oursellves for an anniversary dinner, 19 yrs, so soon will be our return to Harpo's.
Now that I think of it we are in debt to oursellves for an anniversary dinner, 19 yrs, so soon will be our return to Harpo's.