here in Comox I guess we are checking out of our Airbnb bright and early and

today we are continuing to our final destination

we are heading down to Victoria for two days

yes exciting we're basically trading in the wilderness and the small communities

for the we're gonna be seeing the two biggest cities today we're driving by Nanaimo and then our final destination is Victoria which is the biggest city on

the island yeah and we've got my dad in the driver's seat he's gonna get us

there I'm gonna go there but it is raining all night and I'm very winded

today yeah a lot of wind so well guys it's not gonna get any better

unfortunately I don't think I was checking like Nanaimo and a few other

places it looks like it's gonna be rain all day but even with that in mind we're

gonna be making a few stops probably visiting a couple places along

the coast and of course eating Nanaimo bars to choose ourselves up about the

weather will play try the traditional one and then we're gonna try some

contemporary twists on it we found one nanaimo bar that had maple bacon and also dulce de

leche fat restaurants open with bacon I mean okay we're in Canada but that's

overdoing it no it's overkill with maple and all of that that's right I know on

our way we're on our way anyways yeah we got a long day of driving we are heading

south we're basically right now in Comox we're midway up the island and we're

heading to the far south of the island so a busy day so guys our first stop of

the day was that Fanny Bay oh my gosh it's still raining really hard it's

super windy so what I did was I just walked out basically on this tiny little

trail that led out to the coast it's just like rough rough waters wind

rain not a soul in sight and yeah so that's basically our first stop we're

just back in the car and now we're going to be driving on the way to Nanaimo so

we have made our well I'm calling this our first stop of the day P first

official stop one was Fanny Bay and it was so windy and so rainy and Fanny Bay

is so small that we really didn't see much I'm the only one at stormy waters

yeah that's all that's all it was so now we're at Arbutus Grove Provincial Park our beautiful park yep

we've come to see the Arbutus it's known as at Adonis in Spanish and we saw lots

of those when we were in Patagonia yeah but Google Maps kind of led us astray

and then we got here and there was a group of German tourists who are also

kind of lost and they're looking for the Arbutus yeah so we don't know if we're

in the right place we do see two there's two beautiful orange trees the two

beautiful ones but there should be more yeah look that might go into the woods a

bit or that might also be the dead end too

well we kind of found a few trees in the forest I did for your viewing pleasure

they're like a different variety from the same tree that we have in Argentina

it's not the same one yeah like it still has that red bark is a

different tree in order to access there's no trail in the forest variety I

think we're gonna have lunch and then try a different access point this is

obviously not and it looks like we kind of just walked through someone's

backyard even though we didn't but but we are snacking at least I am on some

blackberries these are nice this is bear food

so we've arrived in the city of Nanaimo and that means that it's time to eat a

Nanaimo bar not just any here a word starting with a fancy one so first let

me tell you what the classic Nanaimo bar should have so this is a Canadian

dessert and there is no baking involved it has three layers the bottom layer

typically has wafer and a coconut crumb base then you have your custard with

butter icing and chocolate ganache on top this one instead of putting coconut

into it they've put crushed pretzels and then the custard also has dulce de leche

mixed in and then on top it's a white chocolate instead of a dark chocolate

and it has bacon bits so I feel like it's extra Canadian with the bacon how

do you feel about eating a dessert with bacon my dad feels a little bit like

it's supposed to be a sweet it's got dulce de leche does the Argentinian

typical caramel yeah the heck you're gonna put bacon up here yeah I think

they screwed up with this one I don't know I'm gonna try you know there's some

places that do donuts with bacon on top so it's it's kind of a trend

apparently it's meant to be delicious all right why don't you guys take your

first bite don't take my bite I think it's really good and I like the bacon I

have to say just a little bit of added saltiness after eating one of these but

you have to walk at least 25 kilometers bring it down it's heavy heavy yeah

thanks good but he's heavy well thanks to what this is called smoking George's

smoking George's and yeah they're really friendly staff inside they also

specialize in I think pulled pork sandwiches yeah if we hadn't had lunch

already they probably wouldn't go something

savory too and I think we're gonna hit up one more place Sam had mentioned Reds

bakery they also do Nanaimo bars and they have classic bars but also

contemporary Bart bars with a bit of a twist yeah we will show you a classic

and we're also gonna won't be our last Nanaimo bar no we're obviously gonna

save some of it the whole bar angle by how much were the early three or two or

three bucks each hand over my car okay I thought I'd noticed three seventy-five

but for that side okay where are we guys we can only be in one place we're at the

world's largest hockey stick here and Duncan and this thing is gigantic I mean

look at it look look at it look at how small those

little cards look next to it and you said you played hockey here yeah I

played hockey here before and they already had this this is like a famous

landmark in the city to see the biggest park apparel ventures - in the old days

with the puck there they all lost their I called the hockey so I remember oh

yeah I first came to Canada all the hockey players and all the kids in the

streets a lot of them didn't have any more on teeth theses are where this is

no wear helmets nothing they didn't have protectors either and they didn't have

the mouth guards they didn't have the visor is no helmet it was wild it was

wild man but the goalies apparently they had fractures in their faces and the jaw

and yeah after each game that was teaching them up like oh yeah yeah and

they did there was no knowledge of concussions back then so is this like

you're gonna puck to the head go back home play

yeah there's fighting right fighting I think when we came here to play our team

ended up fighting so it's kind of funny but anyways the biggest hockey stick

guys if you come to if you're driving the say between Victoria Nanaimo

stop here for a photo it's pretty cool hello Victoria

we made it oh my gosh what a long day of driving in the rain and wind oh my I

think we had Sun for 15 minutes yeah and we ended up making

fewer stops because we had planned a few hikes and provincial parks but it was

just pouring rain like there was no way we could be outside it's not like it was

sprinkling like it was just a torrential downpour and it just yeah it's the kind

of it's the kind of weather that's not pleasant for being out yes so we checked

into our Airbnb a little bit early and now we are preparing dinner it's almost

five o'clock what's on the menu today we got pepper beef burgers Oh pepper beef

burgers I don't know what it took so long that would be fun pepper corn beef

burgers yeah and then we're gonna work boiling some potatoes which we plan and

which we plan to pan roast yellow and we've got BC wine yeah Okanagan I should

mention well we were in an I vote we also stopped at Reds bakery another

really famous place for a Nanaimo bars and we picked up two kinds for yes the

classic one and then another one with peanut butter yeah yeah we're gonna be

trying both of those I don't make it three and I'm a bar one day I have to

say the first one was really good the moment was adolescent bacon me Wow and

sea salt I would eat that again for sure yeah I mean it's super decadent but so

tasty anyways we'll sit down with wine and food soon hmm

dinner is served dinner is served soif this is a

delicious meal prepared by Audrey's dad thank you thank you we've got a

peppercorn steamed with cheese humbug uh amber gasps hmm and we also

have a pan-roasted potatoes olive oil a little bit fried yeah you got the wine

another wine mmm it's pretty decent it's uh it's from its local wine throw what I

mean by locals from the province of British Columbia

it's from the Okanagan Valley in BC the most famous area and the province for

for growing wine and we got a Cabernet Merlot from 2016 5 vineyards by Mission

Hill mm-hmm yeah it's a decent table wine it's nothing no it's for everyday

it's a wine that you can have with your meals no problem whatsoever with this

wine it's not the same category is the 25 year old Spanish well no like I

always say that this this area in Canada they're shed beginning you know it's not

that they have a centuries of experience to doing wine it's not like other

countries that you have five six seven eight hundred years it's a new industry

you know and they are doing pretty good and also considering that here they have

to deal with a lot of problems are the climate they know they keep improving

year after year after year so yeah they came up with a really good wine here

yeah it's it's a it's a nice emerging industry here in Canada and if you have

a chance to try the Canadians do so because every province sells their own

unique wines yeah yeah and so the food's good and what we're gonna do is have

nama bars in a bit steak and for that

all right the third time this is their time we've already dug into the Nanaimo

bars Red's bakery mm-hmm my dad's halfway done his but what do you guys

think opinion we've got a classic and a peanut butter peanut butter one now this

one is peanut butter yeah you can really taste the peanut butter the creamy

peanut butter the center here it's a lot of butter when you have it in your mouth

it feels like you have a little small piece of butter that is melting rapidly

in your in your mouth you know I mean it's a good dessert but you need a you

need to have a specific palette for it like maybe people that were grew up here

eating these since they were small yeah like me I like it yeah they will go

crazy for it but for the ones that were showing it for the first time I brought

up in Latin America like us we kind of need something a little bit more I don't

know you know this is the typical North American dessert it kind of the United

States you know that a lot of people will find them beautiful-looking when

you you see them from outside but then you need a you need to have a special

palate for it you know like I mean it's not your average dessert I think you

prefer baked goods like cakes and pies and tarts things like that and this is

just like a refrigerated sugary dessert okay no but it's good but and if you

have to choose your favorite out of the three Nanaimo bars you've had today I'll

think I'll go with the peanut butter one peanut butter one you know what the

peanut butter one reminds me of a Reese's Peanut water

I don't hide my under yeah I'll go then a better one and taking into account

that I do not like peanut butter okay I very seldom eat that because I mean it

is like a paste of a peanut you know miyamura dulce de leche type you know I

think the one with the peanut butter is a little bit softer in taste no you ask

them to try it let's see were full-blown Canadian here yeah he grew up eating

these I did he grew up in it is this is a Vancouver Island food regional

Vancouver Island food so a little bit of coffee first yeah I'm gonna try the

classic and guys something to remember about this keep it refrigerated oh yeah

it starts to melt otherwise like the butter cream it just starts to oh yeah

dissolve I thought oh my gosh good quality thank you definitely the closet

that's the kind of I mean I was most used to have any on the island mmm-hmm

yeah my mom would make it wouldn't eat this all the time but like it's

definitely served a couple times a year you know peanut butter but you are the

peanut butter fan peanut butter monster mmm yes awesome

peanut butter for the win for sure so if you had to choose your favorite out of

all three no yes I actually really like the the other experimental one yeah I

would choose the first one we had but I would swap the pretzels yeah in the

coconut but I also I also like the classic one just cuz it's a familiar

taste from my childhood so I mean like all three of em good yeah I don't think

I've ever had three different when Milo bars in the same day so it's breaking a

new record here yeah just we made the most of a rainy day tomorrow guys the

weather's looking better we have a full day in Victoria

we've got afternoon tea plan we're gonna go visit the Parliament building go

along the harbour garden Butchart Gardens I mean Victoria is

beautiful it is the big city of the island and we're gonna show it to you