Breakfast at the B&B with 3 generations of women guests – a grandmother from Rochester, NY with her daughter and granddaughter who live in Boca Raton in Florida. They just came for one day/night to see a play (Women) in Niagara-on-the-Lake, which has a very well known and respected theater festival every summer (Shaw Festival). The B&B owner Mahroo is a gourmet cook. It was fresh fruit salad followed by fresh baked puff pastry filled with salmon, egg, capers and covered with spiced asparagus. This was followed by freshly baked banana bread for desert. We then left for Toronto but stopped at 2 wineries on the way. Niagara on the Lake is a very upscale community with many large estates in the heart of wine country. The second winery enthralled us with the local wine. The guy who was doing the tasting was fantastic. He showed us how by combining a tidbit of common food with a particular wine a total different flavor emerges. For example, he gave us a rose wine, which by itself was quite unremarkable, but when combined with a piece of celery, it became spicy (a peppery taste). Then he gave us a white wine, which in combination with a piece of very sharp cheddar cheese became much more fruity (Grapefruit overtones). It was very interesting and he gave us much more wine than what we were entitled to.
The drive to Toronto was uneventful. We got to the apartment we rented from VTBO on the web and Bo and Al simultaneously said “what a dump. The owner was working on it so we dropped our bags and left. We took the metro downtown and attempted to walk around the city, but the heat was unbearable so we found a huge shopping mall right in the middle of the city (Eaton place) and walked inside at least for some time to cool off. We thought we would relocate after one night but it turned out to be acceptable. We found an internet café and paid for and printed a parking permit for our neighborhood.
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