Reader postcard from Niagara Falls

    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.

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      The Skeptical Chemist: Reapers of the Park (part 1 of 2)

      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…

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        Day 30 (26.vii.08) << marius ostrowski's web log

        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,…

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          Tourism’s perfect storm relents

          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…

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            Deal reached in Fallsview trademark dispute

            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…

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              Guinness World Records Museum in Summer 2007

              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…

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                Have A Whale Of A Good Time!

                Last Thursday I received the latest newsletter from the Marriott Niagara Falls Fallsview & Spa. You can subscribe to the newsletter by clicking on the Special Email Offers link on the side of the Marriott Niagara Falls Fallsview & Spa main page.

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                  the Strawberry Corner: My Journey In the Land of the Crabapples

                  Someone with a Blogger blog posted about a recent trip to Niagara Falls (including pictures): This was our second trip into Canada, to see Niagara Falls. Just his aunt and grandma went with us. The aunt drove again, but I didn’t get as sick this time. There’s one neat spot on the bridge before the…

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                    TOURISM: A day in the Falls

                    From the Niagara Gazette: Much of what members of the Spickler family knew about Niagara Falls was based on what they saw on television or in movies. On Thursday, the family of four from Rockford, Ill., got a chance to get an up-close look at the Falls as part of a one-day, whirlwind sightseeing adventure…

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                      #26 Daredevil Dean Sullivan Skylon Tower Jump July 7, 2008

                      I first heard about this video on the Niagara Falls Blog – Travel and Tourism News… Apparently, Dean Sullivan had a camera attached to him as he rappelled down from the Skylon Tower. Someone has posted a video of this on YouTube. The visual presentation isn’t anything spectacular, but it’s great hearing the audio! For…

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