Walper Terrace Kitchener

... 8211; hundreds of them! Most seem to be 160 acres in size that are seeded into corn or peas and are owned by Old Order Mennonites. Unbelievably, the corn crops are cut down by horse-drawn 2-row cutter/bundlers on steel wheels. The guy sits on the machine. THEN, other teams of horses pulling high-sided wagons pick up the (very small) bundles and hall them to a silage cutter/blower. All the silage goes into silos ...

... here on a teaching exchange in the 80’s and married a Canadian. It will be nice to meet up with them again in Perth.

Yesterday I had a very different birthday. It is Oktoberfest here this week (the biggest Oktoberfest outside Germany. We went downtown for a free breakfast and German music in the street. It was a great atmosphere. There is a large German population here. Last night we went to one of the German Clubs for their big night. It was very ...

My friend Kitty, who I met and hung out with in Sintra, Portugal came and picked me up in Toronto. We went to bruch and ate cheesecake, the healthy option of course! We drove to what I think was Kitchener, and went over to her friend ...

... from many different sources, including
Art Deco, Beaux-Arts, Neo-Classical, Baroque, Renaissance, Gothic, and
the Romanesque period. Come to the Bund if you want to see a variety of
history within arm's reach, practically, all within the beauty of the
Bund's architecture, from present-day to ancient history. Within the
Bund Shanghai, elements of style, influence, culture and history merge.

By: Ryse Edwards

... Unfortunately it was rainy but we managed to have a bit of a look around the town before going to the theatre to see 'Westside Story’. It is only a town of 32,000 people but has five theatres with lots of performances. The show we saw was sold out. We were lucky to get some of the last tickets in the morning. The couple next to me were from UK and come over here every year just to go to the ...

... Disney charges you $10 per night to rent a fridge for your hotel room. So years ago some people got together and split the $100 cost of buying their own little fridge, and they passed it off to each other. The first person went week 1, then on the day they left gave it to the 2nd person, who is there week 2, etc etc. Eventually the original group of people were finished their vacations, but decided to keep passing around the fridge for free! There are about ...

... to city (most of the time...) Despite this ridiculous preperation (again, itinerary!?!?!????) I've yet to find the apparently necessary bodyguard named "Bruiser" for secret-service like accompaniment. Let me know if you find one within the next week. We're soon off for a few weeks of kayaking, hiking, surfing, sun-bathing....I better stop before I loose my ride to the airport ;) ....from a desperate sun-seeker

... of Moher, Giants Causeway, Cinque Terre), but Im not too concerned about us not having anything to do with our time. Anyone who has come to visit me knows I will always find stuff to do/ trouble to get into.. haha. I was telling a friend that Kourt is prob the only person in the world that would trip with me like this, and he said he went with his brother, and it was the best vacation ever. We will find some internet cafe's or access in the hostels ...

... for our final flight to Toronto. The customs line in Miami was short. We were let through after only two or three questions. Things were once again going too well. And we knew it. We had to recheck our luggage in Miama (it's a 'Homeland Security' obsession of the United States.) Our bags went through xray, our tickets were in hand, we were on our way to the Toronto departure gate. Casually we rechecked the gate location on the ...

... biggest differences, apart from the obvious ones, are the complete lack of birds, the lack of sky and the lack of pets. I remember being woken up by the birds almost every morning from spring to autumn in Canada. Here I don't think I've heard or even seen a single one. There are no stars, you just can't see them. It is barely possible to see the hills surrounding the city. I haven't seen more than one dog either and that was this morning (after 4 days). I hate to think why ...