[Leica] Oh Canada!

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Hi Nathan,
Your Niagara Falls shot took me back. I used to take Chinese delegations 
there on every trip to Canada. If you had a little more time the Shakespeare 
Festival at Stratford, Ontario and the Shaw Festival at Niagara-on-the-Lake 
(NotL to the locals) are well worth a few days visit to take in the plays. 
My son-in-law directed at Shaw a couple of years ago. Regarding crossing the 
border I haven?t been to the States since the LHSA meeting in Seattle a few 
years ago when it took us THREE hours to cross the border and there wasn?t 
even a whiff of an apology for the delay. So I am with Henning and Jayanand 
on this one although we are planning to be in New York in 2016.
Some places are just too attractive.
Cheers
Howard 

Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 11:40:24 -0400
From: Nathan Wajsman <nwajsman at gmail.com>
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>, Olympus Camera Discussion
        <olympus at thomasclausen.net>
Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAD 10/8/2014: Oh, Canada!

We spent yesterday on the Canadian side of the border, first taking in the 
awesomeness that is Niagara Falls (despite local attempts to turn it into a 
horrible Disneyland):
http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=3451580623&k=cX7jChW&lb=1&s=O

Then we drove the 15 km to Niagara-on-the-Lake and visited several of the 
local wineries. The wine was surprisingly good; I knew that the whites would 
be nice, and indeed there were several good Rieslings, and of course ice 
wine (frost in December/January is pretty dependable in Canada?). But the 
real surprise were the reds, some of which had the flavour, fruitiness and 
structure to match what we drink in Spain, but with a unique character. And 
finally, we came across the town?s lone crafts beer maker, Oast House 
Brewers, where my wife took a picture of me holding a bottle I had fallen in 
love with:
http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=3451580961&k=BqdB7ff&lb=1&s=O

The only bad part about the trip was the one hour wait to cross back into 
the US. For some weird reason, the level of interrogation (and hence the 
time it takes to process each car) is much more extensive here than at the 
airport; and we are talking here about a car with US license plates and with 
four US citizens in it. I can only imagine what non-USians go through at 
that border. In our case it was the Lewiston Bridge, but the Peace and 
Rainbow Bridges were equally backed up.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain