More Ontario
Oct. 1st, 2008 04:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
london1967We’re in Salem, MA but haven’t finished posting about our last couple of days in Toronto.
On Sunday we visited Spadina House, the family home of a wealthy Torontian family built in 1866; same age as our humble dwelling in London, but much, much bigger.
It was worth visiting for the restored interiors and the garden. In the kitchen “cook” - in period apron - was busy making coconut rings.
The ‘sun room’
After that we went to the Allan Garden to visit the beautiful greenhouses.
We then had a walk around the gay village stopping at Timothy’s for a bite to eat and visited a couple of shops. Not much else was done that day because we got up late.
Paul and Bob had invited a couple of friends over for dinner. We had quite a lot to talk about with Ian and Philip as they had visited London in the summer. The food as always was terrific: Bob is a great cook. For dessert we had pumpkin pie (Paul recalled from LJ that we had never had it before); it was yummy!
Monday was dedicated to a trip to the Niagara Falls. We went on a coach tour because it was the easiest option.
In hindsight perhaps it would have been better if we had gone on the train/coach as we could have spent more time in Niagara Falls instead of having to stop at the local airport to be pressured into buying a helicopter ride (we didn’t - and nobody managed to go anyway because it was too cloudy), and at a rather uninspiring winery. But it’s nice sometimes to shepherded around!
Adrian about to get a good soaking on the Maid of the Mist
On Sunday we visited Spadina House, the family home of a wealthy Torontian family built in 1866; same age as our humble dwelling in London, but much, much bigger.
It was worth visiting for the restored interiors and the garden. In the kitchen “cook” - in period apron - was busy making coconut rings.
The ‘sun room’
After that we went to the Allan Garden to visit the beautiful greenhouses.
We then had a walk around the gay village stopping at Timothy’s for a bite to eat and visited a couple of shops. Not much else was done that day because we got up late.
Paul and Bob had invited a couple of friends over for dinner. We had quite a lot to talk about with Ian and Philip as they had visited London in the summer. The food as always was terrific: Bob is a great cook. For dessert we had pumpkin pie (Paul recalled from LJ that we had never had it before); it was yummy!
Monday was dedicated to a trip to the Niagara Falls. We went on a coach tour because it was the easiest option.
In hindsight perhaps it would have been better if we had gone on the train/coach as we could have spent more time in Niagara Falls instead of having to stop at the local airport to be pressured into buying a helicopter ride (we didn’t - and nobody managed to go anyway because it was too cloudy), and at a rather uninspiring winery. But it’s nice sometimes to shepherded around!
Adrian about to get a good soaking on the Maid of the Mist
