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Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAD 10/8/2014: Oh, Canada!
From: lluisripollphotography at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 12:18:21 +0200
References: <D6C6D3D5-8B74-48D5-979D-F83183B2CD65@frozenlight.eu>

This is a very nice and unforgettable place for me, I?ve traveled there in 
my honeymoon? some ? a lot ...years ago!

Un abrazo
Lluis

El 11/08/2014, a las 17:40, Nathan Wajsman <nwajsman at gmail.com> escribi?:

> We spent yesterday on the Canadian side of the border, first taking in the 
> awesomeness that is Niagara Falls (despite local attempts to turn it into 
> a horrible Disneyland):
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=3451580623&k=cX7jChW&lb=1&s=O
> 
> Then we drove the 15 km to Niagara-on-the-Lake and visited several of the 
> local wineries. The wine was surprisingly good; I knew that the whites 
> would be nice, and indeed there were several good Rieslings, and of course 
> ice wine (frost in December/January is pretty dependable in Canada?). But 
> the real surprise were the reds, some of which had the flavour, fruitiness 
> and structure to match what we drink in Spain, but with a unique 
> character. And finally, we came across the town?s lone crafts beer maker, 
> Oast House Brewers, where my wife took a picture of me holding a bottle I 
> had fallen in love with:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=3451580961&k=BqdB7ff&lb=1&s=O
> 
> The only bad part about the trip was the one hour wait to cross back into 
> the US. For some weird reason, the level of interrogation (and hence the 
> time it takes to process each car) is much more extensive here than at the 
> airport; and we are talking here about a car with US license plates and 
> with four US citizens in it. I can only imagine what non-USians go through 
> at that border. In our case it was the Lewiston Bridge, but the Peace and 
> Rainbow Bridges were equally backed up.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nathan
> 
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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