SLOW VICTORIA -ABOUT US

Slow Victoria started as a need to change my lifestyle and to share it with you! What started out as a two week vacation with my fiancé has turned into a labour of love!

Battling a 60 hour a week plus, high stress job and the need to get away brought me to Victoria. I had just finished reading Carl Honore’s “In Praise of Slow” and suddenly I realized that my life was about LIVING TO WORK and rushing through each moment of my life like a possessed soul!

I was so taken with the SLOW concept and its hidden truths that I wanted everyone to come to the same realization that I have! I wasn’t rushing to a better life…. in fact I was, to put it quite bluntly, rushing to an early grave!!!

I thought if a man in Italy can start a slow food movement that is sweeping the globe to such a degree that the slow food movement is popping up all across the nation, the next step would be to bring it into every aspect of our lives.

We were so taken with the slow pace in Victoria and the friendliness of the people on our morning walks that Ted and I believed that Victoria would be the place to launch SLOW.

Ted is no stranger to the web! He is a web developer, programmer, computer technician and network engineer. He has evolved with the Internet since its' inception and began his business 5Fish Inc. in 1997. 5Fish Inc. is a web development and search engine optimization company with clients across North America. Prior to that, he was an educator, having taught computer education from primary grades to college level in Canada and in the Middle East. He has degrees in Education and Geography majoring in environmental studies.

Ted moved from Muskoka, Ontario to Victoria in the summer of 2007 to enjoy the moderate climate of Victoria. I followed in October and that is when we made our decision to stay.

Our society has moved into the "FAST" age and it is destroying lives, families and indeed affecting our health to such a degree that we are rushing through life and not enjoying it.

This site is about promoting a slower lifestyle, better eating, better living and indeed living longer and happier!!

To quote Vivian Smith writer for The Times Colonist “We Islanders must be doing something right!” According to B.C Vital Statistics data, anomalies and contradictions aside, over-all wellness decreases the farther one goes FROM southern Vancouver Island and the lower mainland!!

And Slow it goes!

Doreen.