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Travel Blogs from Peterborough
Canoes....and more canoes
Took us six hours or so to drive here yesterday including crossing the border into Canada and visiting Niagara-on-the-Lake. This is a pretty old town situated where the Niagara river flows into Lake Ontario. It was called Newark, and was the capital town, until the British got nervous of the closeness of the French and moved the capital to Toronto (which was called York back then) and the ...
Am I a farmer yet?
I arrived at my friend Ruth (Hadden) Moore's farm on Saturday, August 25th and will leave Thursday morning, August 30th. I have had fun helping her walk the neighbor's dog, find the neighbor's dog that I let escape (tricky terrier), touring Havelock and digging through the barns and in the gardens. I am ...
In and around the lovely Peterborough
... rain we had fell appropriately on the day that kids here returned to school.
Its been a relaxing and enjoyable time. Lots of hanging out, nice meals and stories from Karen's parents, Ann and Terry about life up north and other general chit chat. We've taken in the sights and sounds, including the worlds largest hydrolic liftlock, the Canadian canoe museum and various restaurants and bars. Its also given us a much needed base to get paperwork, ...
Summer cottage
After having some Pho at a Vietnamese restaurant with my uncle, we made the two and a half hour drive from Toronto to Apsley. Here we arrived at the Sherkin's beautiful summer house cottage on the lake. All five Sherkins, Bonnie and Derek, my Uncle Barry and Aunt Elaine, ...
Mark Cocker's "Loneliness and Time"
... yet in somehow avoiding their sense of European superiority "he appears wholly distinct from the explorers of the past."
His best books are Arabian Sands and The Marsh Arabs. In a style well suited to the desert lands he describes, he avoids the prolixity of many earlier explorers. Arabian Sands is "a quest for and celebration of both the masculine severity and atavistic pleasures of the pagan world. [Thesiger refers to] 'the richness of meat; the taste ...
Other places to stay in Peterborough
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Lancaster Cottage and Trailer Resort
691 Frank Hill Rd., Peterborough | Ranch
