Daily Archive for August 4th, 2007

Falling for Niagara’s more-than-pleasant meals

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Graham
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From the Toronto Star:

Let’s start with a simple admission: Nobody comes here for the food. It’s such a massive short-term tourist destination that every restaurant and fast-food chain known to man has at least one outlet there. But if you’re careful, you can actually navigate your way through a series of more-than-pleasant meals. (You’ll find two chains on this list, but they’re really far above average and I always feel that if you can’t lick ‘em, join ‘em.)

Small Town Mom, Wife, Teacher: …..And The Next Four…..

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Here is another blog entry by someone named Beth who lives in Illinois:

We went across the Rainbow Bridge to Canada and then had to go through customs, which turned out to be not a big deal at all. We only had to show our driver’s licenses and the girls’ birth certs. We first headed to the Skylon Tower and bought tickets to go to the top to have lunch at 11:30. So then we had about 1.5 hours to kill. We walked down to the falls and got a good look at the Horseshoe (Canadian) Falls. The closer we got, the wetter we got!…

We headed for the Maid of the Mist boat, where we rode to the base of the falls and got pretty darn wet! I rode that boat many years ago, probably in 1982, on my first trip here, but haven’t been on it since. Very cool! I especially liked when the captain of the boat said (while were at the base of the Canadian Falls) “Ladies and Gentlemen…..THIS is Niagara Falls!” It was awesome.

Bridge wait issue confusing to visitors

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From the Niagara Falls Review:

The number of passenger vehicles crossing Niagara-area bridges is falling.

Year-to-date figures for the Rainbow Bridge show a 7.75-per cent decline in passenger traffic, compared to the same period in 2006. At the Queenston-Lewiston Bridge, passenger crossings are down 4.77 per cent compared to the figures from the first half of last year.

Statistics for the month of June were closer to those for the same month the previous year.

The Rainbow Bridge was down 0.62 per cent from the volume of passenger vehicles recorded in June 2006, while the Queenston-Lewiston Bridge saw a drop of 0.
76 this June compared to the same month a year ago.

“It has been a steady decline,” said Brent Gallaugher, manager of agency relations and security for the Niagara Falls Bridge Commission. “The Americans seem reluctant to travel,” he said.