Monday 6th July
Up very early this morning as we were off to Vancouver Island, and were trying to get the 7:00am ferry. The drive from where we were staying was nearly an hour, and we paid our money ($128 for six adults and vehicle) and waited in the queue to board. Boarding these roll-on roll-off ferries is a lot quicker and simpler than in NZ, and the vehicles are not tied down, even to the trip from Tsammassen to Schwap Bay is over 1.5 hours. We ended up getting the 8:00am ferry (Spirit of New Westminster). Shamina mentioned in the car on the way that she had been told by Ashok’s wife that Jonny Lever was in Surrey at present. We met Johnny Lever on Saturday night in October 2003, when they were shooting Main Prem Ki Deewanee Hoon at New Brighton.
Once off the ferry we headed direct to Butchart Gardens, a famous historical garden on Vancouver Island. We were shocked to see the entry price of $28 an adult and $14 a youth, but paid and went into the car park area. The staff car park was huge – this was some garden. We started walking around viewing the sunken garden, rose garden, Japanese garden etc, finishing with the Italian garden.
Naushad, who had been walking around by himself, came to us and said he saw a man who looked like Jonny Lever. Sure enough it was, and once again we met him and took another photograph, He was wearing a NZ jacket, and we told him that we had met him once in Christchurch when shooting Main Prem Ki Deewanee Hoon.
Leaving the gardens we proceeded to Victoria, the main city on Vancouver Island. I walked around photographing the Parliament buildings and other attractions, also checking out a good bookshop and a large camera shop. After going for another short drive we headed back to Schwap Bay and managed to get the 3:00pm ferry (Spirit of Vancouver) back to the mainland. This was a larger ferry than the morning one, and reminded me of the Cook Strait ferries, although these ferrys have bow doors and are true roll-thru ferrys.
We returned to Surrey, and then after about an hour headed out to the Green Lettuce, a Chinese restaurant that specialises in Indian style Chinese cuisine. The owner grew up in the Muslim section of Bombay, and most of the staff spoke Hindi and or Punjabi. Nearly all the customers were Indian. All the meat was Halal.
Up very early this morning as we were off to Vancouver Island, and were trying to get the 7:00am ferry. The drive from where we were staying was nearly an hour, and we paid our money ($128 for six adults and vehicle) and waited in the queue to board. Boarding these roll-on roll-off ferries is a lot quicker and simpler than in NZ, and the vehicles are not tied down, even to the trip from Tsammassen to Schwap Bay is over 1.5 hours. We ended up getting the 8:00am ferry (Spirit of New Westminster). Shamina mentioned in the car on the way that she had been told by Ashok’s wife that Jonny Lever was in Surrey at present. We met Johnny Lever on Saturday night in October 2003, when they were shooting Main Prem Ki Deewanee Hoon at New Brighton.
Once off the ferry we headed direct to Butchart Gardens, a famous historical garden on Vancouver Island. We were shocked to see the entry price of $28 an adult and $14 a youth, but paid and went into the car park area. The staff car park was huge – this was some garden. We started walking around viewing the sunken garden, rose garden, Japanese garden etc, finishing with the Italian garden.
Naushad, who had been walking around by himself, came to us and said he saw a man who looked like Jonny Lever. Sure enough it was, and once again we met him and took another photograph, He was wearing a NZ jacket, and we told him that we had met him once in Christchurch when shooting Main Prem Ki Deewanee Hoon.
Leaving the gardens we proceeded to Victoria, the main city on Vancouver Island. I walked around photographing the Parliament buildings and other attractions, also checking out a good bookshop and a large camera shop. After going for another short drive we headed back to Schwap Bay and managed to get the 3:00pm ferry (Spirit of Vancouver) back to the mainland. This was a larger ferry than the morning one, and reminded me of the Cook Strait ferries, although these ferrys have bow doors and are true roll-thru ferrys.
We returned to Surrey, and then after about an hour headed out to the Green Lettuce, a Chinese restaurant that specialises in Indian style Chinese cuisine. The owner grew up in the Muslim section of Bombay, and most of the staff spoke Hindi and or Punjabi. Nearly all the customers were Indian. All the meat was Halal.
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