From Stuff (New Zealand): With all the rules in life – chew with your mouth closed, don’t talk to strangers, look both ways before you cross the street – there’s another that should probably be added to the list: don’t propose to your girlfriend while 170 million litres of water a minute is hurtling over…
From the New Orleans Advocate: For many Americans, Niagara Falls exists only in imagination or memory. It’s nearly effortless to conjure up images of the towering, majestic falls and the great rush of water, images often inspired by picture-perfect postcards or by distant recollections of a long-ago honeymoon. But for residents of Niagara Falls, New…
From the Norwalk Reflector: My wife, Jodie, and I are celebrating our 20th anniversary. We were married Aug. 3, 1996 and honeymooned in early October of that year, taking an East Coast cruise that included stops in Rhode Island, Maine and Nova Scotia before returning to New York City. So to celebrate our 20th, we…
From HowStuffWorks.com: All that majesty, power and water didn’t stop Oscar Wilde from quipping about Niagara Falls being the second disappointment in the married life of many American brides who spend their honeymoon there, after he visited it in 1882. Can’t please everyone? Take this quiz to see how much you know about the natural…
At another store, I recently saw this book from 1978 called Canada which includes an introduction by Harry J Boyle (apparently he was a famous CBC broadcaster). The book has information about different parts of Canada and there was a section about Niagara Falls: Niagara Falls, where the mighty Niagara River plunges over the escarpment into a deep…
From MTV News: I just got married, which entailed many big decisions: What to wear? What to serve? Whom to invite? Holy s–t, do I really want to get married?! But perhaps there was no bigger decision than where to go for our honeymoon. My wife and I considered South American hotspots like Buenos Aires…
Hello, Niagara fans! I’m so excited that Graham has allowed me to take part in his blog! Let me tell you a little bit about myself. I am Karen, and I live In Pittsburgh, PA. I am a longtime follower of this blog. I am also a longtime Niagara tourist. Go figure. I won’t say…
From the San Diego Reader: My grandfather was born in what is now the Ukraine, but was then known as Czarist Russia. When he later emigrated to the U.S. and got married to my grandmother, he wanted to go on a honeymoon that was classically American. Then, as now, the place to go was Niagara…
From the Welland Tribune: The king-size, blue-velvet vibrating bed was just the start of Dave and Sandy Carson’s classic Niagara Falls honeymoon. But when the vibrating bed wouldn’t shut off after they put in a few quarters, the novelty wore off quickly. They had to unplug it. Now retired and living in Fort Erie, they…
From Niagara This Week: City council wants Prince William and his bride-to-be Kate Middleton to make Niagara Falls a top choice on their upcoming trip to Canada. The city issued a preliminary invitation to the couple in late 2010, but talk of a summer honeymoon across the pond has council buzzing about the chance of…