{"id":1119,"date":"2007-03-08T10:39:57","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T18:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2007-03-08T10:40:59","modified_gmt":"2007-03-08T18:40:59","slug":"notes-on-a-quick-trip-to-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/notes-on-a-quick-trip-to-victoria\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes on a quick trip to Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1118\" alt=\"bentmastsession.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/bentmastsession.jpg?w=620\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I was in Victoria Tuesday and Wednesday and, in addition to working, found out a few other things about my regular routine there:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tuesday&#8217;s there is an Irish session (with some other tunes) at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesession.org\/sessions\/display\/688\">Bent Mast Pub<\/a> in James Bay.  It&#8217;s a very friendly session, and a nice social scene.  My new friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dryodora\/\">Jonathan<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dryodora\/414330158\/\">took<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dryodora\/414330309\/\">a<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dryodora\/414330259\/\">few<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dryodora\/414330242\/\">pictures<\/a> of our tijme together on Tuesday including the one above of me. we even had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dryodora\/414330352\/\">a dancer<\/a> join us.<\/li>\n<li>The best place for lunch on the whole planet bar none is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dinehere.ca\/restaurant.asp?r=1139\">daidoco<\/a>.  It is a little Jaanese place tucked into Nootka Court on Courtney Street.  Yesterday I had a beautiful tuna don bowl.  The tuna is PERFECT.  Seared for a second and then thinly sliced  and served over rice dressed with teriyaki sauce.  I also had the most amazing little salad with grilled slamon chunks, onion and apple served on a small patty of mashed potato.  That description deosn&#8217;t do it justice.<\/li>\n<li>Mirage Cafe on Goverment Street has a great espresso, as good as Cafe Macchiato around the corner.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluecrab.ca\/\">Blue Crab<\/a> restaurant at the Coast Hotel where I stay, although much vaunted for it&#8217;s seafood menu, does not know how to make an espresso.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coffeecrew.com\/content\/view\/37\/113\/\">More on Victoria and Vancouver Island cafes<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/74702585@N00\/414190818\/\">cherry<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/74702585@N00\/414190781\/\">blossoms<\/a> are out, and the streets of James Bay are pungent with their scent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px\">[tags]victoria, daidoco[\/tags]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Victoria Tuesday and Wednesday and, in addition to working, found out a few other things about my regular routine there: Tuesday&#8217;s there is an Irish session (with some other tunes) at the Bent Mast Pub in James Bay. It&#8217;s a very friendly session, and a nice social scene. My new friend Jonathan took a few pictures of our tijme together on Tuesday including the one above of me. we even had a dancer join us. The best place for lunch on the whole planet bar none is daidoco. It is a little Jaanese place tucked into Nootka &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-i3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}