Regina to Winnipeg 😁

terryhills4
Jul 17
3 min read

The road from Moose Jaw to Regina is very flat and straight. We had a good drive and we settled into a campground on the east side of Regina where we had stayed before. Very nice and close to a Costco and grocery store stores and anything and everything we may need. 🤓

As we’re revisiting some of these places like Regina, we’ve tried to do things that we never did the first time. We drove into the city looking for a European deli to find some of our European treats and we did find a very cool grocery store and we made a couple of purchases. We’re not big gamblers but we decided to go and visit the casino which is in the old Central Train Station in downtown Regina. We gave a standard donation to the casino and had a nice lunch checked out the old steam engine and dining car that are there. Because I was in a casino. I couldn’t take any pictures inside, but they’ve done a beautiful restoration of the building, including the tiled murals in the grand entry hall.

A few pictures from around Regina, including the old CTV building, which was just down the street from our campsite and I noticed on the local news you could actually see our campsite in their camera view. Also a few pictures from around the city where some of the Backstreets have wonderful old trees hanging over the street.

Our next stop after Regina was Brandon Manitoba. As we crossed the border in Manitoba, we decided to stop at the tourist information which is open every day in the summer from 9 to 5 except for Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Ok 😛. Again we toured around in Brandon a little bit and there’s quite a few old buildings a couple of old trains and it’s a nice little community although I’m quite sure it is freezing cold in the winter.

During World War II, Brandon was a major training centre for Allied pilots from all kinds of countries. They have a really nice museum at Brandon Airport with lots of rare planes and parts of rare planes. At the end of the war Manitoba for some reason ended up with a lot of airplanes that were purchased by farmers and various other folks and they started to be rounded up in the late 80s early 90s as museum pieces and as you can see from some of my pictures, they have lots of parts which is pretty cool.

https://airmuseum.ca/

After our time in Brandon, we are off to the KOA in West Winnipeg. We used this as our base going in and out of Winnipeg, which we thoroughly enjoyed.. The campsite was nice and we met some nice new friends from Germany and lots of folks from Ontario heading in the direction of western destinations

We spent one of our days for a visit to the Winnipeg Zoo. Once again, they have a lot of rescue animals, which is pretty cool and a lot of rescue polar bears. Churchill Manitoba in a major way is the polar bear capital of Canada. You can get pretty close to the polar bears as they swim right above you in this particular area and they all look happy and well fed. 😁

They have lots of monkeys, a few tigers, and a couple of pretty cool sloths. After our tour of the zoo, we went to the leaf, which is a restaurant in the middle of the big park in Winnipeg where we had lunch last year and it turned into a thoroughly enjoyable day.

https://www.gatherattheleaf.ca/

https://www.assiniboinepark.ca/

A visit to The Forks which is an area where the two main rivers in Winnipeg The Red River and The Assiniboine River meet. It’s basically behind the main train station. It’s a pretty cool food hall similar to the one that we encountered in Lisbon Portugal last winter and we had a nice lunch and looked around and checked out the rivers perfect way to spend a Sunday..

https://www.theforks.com/

Our last full day in Winnipeg, after a very late evening, talking German with a few adult beverages, we decided to go to the spa. There are three of these in North America one in Winnipeg, one in Quebec and one in Whitby Ontario. 4 hours of steam’s saunas bubbly water is a great way to rejuvenate yourself.

https://thermea.com/winnipeg