Moving from anticipation to accommodation

    From the Niagara Falls Review: In his state of the city address last year, Niagara Falls Mayor Ted Salci talked up anticipated federal and provincial investments in a convention centre to lure year-round visitors to the city. With the funding now securely in place – and Thursday’s expected introduction of the new convention centre president…

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      “Niagara Falls on a Dime”

      Travel web site Trifter has an posting about how to get deals in Niagara Falls: This isn’t penny pinching, its saving enough where you need to so you can have a wonderful, enjoyable vacation in the Canadian City of Love, Niagara Falls. Whether it is visiting off-season in the wintertime, or in the peak of…

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        Niagara FreeFall ad

        I commented a few weeks ago that I’ve heard the wind tunnel operating at the new Niagara FreeFall location at the Hooters. As I’ve been near there, I’ve heard it several more times. About a week ago the following ad was in the paper. They must be very close to opening.

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          “Nightlife and Last Day…. #3”

          Someone with a Blogger blog has posted (with some nice pictures) about a recent vacation: We bundled everyone up and headed out to view the town. Our hotel was in the Clifton Hill area which is very touristy with tons of lights and attractions. … The really neat thing….on the way home from dropping Carl…

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            Twinkling for a price

            From Niagara This Week: It could soon cost a few bucks for car loads of winter revellers to enjoy the twinkling lights along the Niagara Parkway. Dino Fazio, general manager of the Winter Festival of Lights, told This Week his staff is looking at the possibility of charging admission to take in the annual lights…

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              FlashEarth – Niagara Falls

              I’m sure you are all familiar with the various satellite image services out there. I’ve used Google Maps before on the blog. Microsoft has Virtual Earth. There are also other sites out there. The problem is, you usually need to load each site and then search separately on each site for locations. If you visit…

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                “Top TV Rescue Fantasies”

                The Boston Globe had a feature on their site the other day that talked about the 14 shows they wished were still on. # 12 was Wonderfalls: Fox didn’t really give this unique portrait of twentysomething existential angst a fair chance. Caroline Dhavernas (pictured) was a wonderfully offbeat heroine, a 24-year-old college graduate who majored…

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