On September 16, 1922, Agatha Christie landed in Victoria aboard the liner Niagara.
For Europeans, the city seems to be at the end of the world.
There is nothing today.
The feeling of "
distant
" is sought on another tip of Vancouver Island, in the small town of Tofino.
“
The first cinema is three hours away by car.
And, on this side of the ocean, there is nothing before New Zealand, 13,500 kilometers away!
laughs Charles McDiarmid, at the head of the Relais & Châteaux hotel The Wickaninnish Inn.
We've had a Tom Sawyer life for a long time.
The road arrived in 1959 but, at first, it was reserved for the timber industry between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
It crosses the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve and its thick rain forests, primary or secondary against a backdrop of snow-capped peaks.
Majestic, the trees are dressed in moss and lichen in an atmosphere worthy of Tolkien.
On Chesterman Beach or Cox Bay, trunks washed up on the…
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