I have no wireless connection, so this post is a bit late. I could have borrowed a PC with an Internet connection, but I have just got too used to the convenience of BlogPress. I tried two different wireless connections, but could seem to post any photographs. A restaurant connection posted just one, then refused to do any more. However, recent developments seem to indicate that the problem is the BlogPress software I have been using
We are some 100 km west of Toronto, in an attractive part of Ontario between Lake Ontario and Lake Huron, surrounded by Mennonite farms. Mennonites are somewhat like the Amish I am told, so we may see them in horse and buggy, and there are some farms with no electricity, only kerosene lamps.
It has been a bit cold, so we haven't seen any horse and buggy today though. We drove through the countryside, rolling hills with a light sprinkling of snow.
Many of the farms have grain silos along with the other farm buildings.
Our destination was the pretty town of Stratford, a place with some delightful old Victorian buildings. This is the Town Hall.
With the red brick and the gothic-looking turrets, it is slightly reminiscent of the building where I used to work.
Though there was plenty of traffic, the shops were not busy with last-minute Christmas shoppers, in fact many of the shops had no customers at all.
There were a number of Art Galleries, and we went into all of them, but managed to escape without buying anything, in spite of many of the offerings being very beautiful. Many were also very expensive, and our suitcases are already full and very heavy. One shop had wonderful carvings of bears, very smooth and shiny in a hard dark green rock and it was hard to avoid buying one. However, not only were they expensive and very heavy, we don't have a home at present!
It was also very hard to resist the chocolate shop though, especially these wonderful variations on the good old toffee apple
However, we reflected that we were likely to eat too much anyway, without adding extras, and we have already eaten far too many cooked breakfasts.
So we went for a light lunch in a pub where we were almost the only customers, and set off to drive back home. On the way to the car, we passed this gateway
Unless your screen is very big, you won't be able to see that it is the gateway to tir nan Og (The Land of Youth). I would have gone in, but as you may be able to see, there doesn't seem to be anything behind it. Perhaps I should have gone through, just to see what happened!
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