This weekend was an unofficial holiday (some people get it off, some people don’t, I’m one of those suckers who don’t). Anyway, the weather has been beautiful, and there has been loads of people around. I was driving down Stanley Avenue around 3 pm on Saturday, and it was backed up from Victoria Avenue almost…
Someone with a LiveJournal blog posted about a recent trip to Niagara Falls: …I got to go to the casino (lost $100 on Friday and won $40 on Saturday – overall down $60 but many hours of fun!). My only complaint was the price of food at the restaurants there – you need to bank…
The future East Side Mario’s on Clifton Hill is making slow progress. The outside is fully covered with insulation now.
Last Thursday I received the latest newsletter from Whirlpool Jet Boat Tours For now, the only way I am aware of signing up for the newsletter is by visiting the web site of the company that provides the newsletter service.
The Travel/Outdoors section of the Seattle Times newspaper has a weekly feature where they include readers’ travel photos. This week, there is a picture of Niagara Falls: This was one of the many rainbows we saw at Niagara Falls. The view is of Horseshoe Falls with the Maid of the Mist below.
Someone with the Blogger blog posted about a recent trip to Niagara Falls: We met up with the gang and headed to Clifton Hill and the falls. Niagara Falls is the quintessential tourist trap. Core attractions ringed with eateries and souvenir shops and surrounded by a sea of motels. I couldn’t seem to find the…
Someone with a WordPress blog posted about a recent trip to Niagara Falls: …I charged down Clifton Hill towards the river. Yes, there are the falls, I noted grimly, while every single other tourist oohed and aahed, I haven’t come to the wrong country after all, oh aren’t they special, there’s s***loads of water, brilliant,…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Tim Parker was wrong when he predicted a 10 per cent decline in the city’s tourism industry this year. But the general manager of Ripley’s Niagara Falls said he’s not sorry. “If I could retract my story from June, I would,” Parker said this week, after a day filled with…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Ten months after registering the Fallsview trademark, Crystal Beach entrepreneur Steven Alek has inked a deal to place the name in the public domain. The Review has learned Alek and the Fallsview Business Improvement Area signed off on an agreement July 3, which will see the BIA take over ownership…
No, that’s not a typo! I am truly posting about a trip from last year. To be precise, it was a trip from the end of August 2007. I know, I know, I’m a little slow, but better late than never. About a year ago my family and I went to the Guinness World Records…