Blogs from Niagara Falls, New York, United States, North America - page 4

Geo: 43.0955, -79.0559Really just a one day report of a trip to Niagara falls. Having spent the morning catching up on e-mails and this blog we set out about 11 for Niagara, about 25 miles away. Peter managed not to spot the sign indicating the speed limit had dropped from 65 to 55 (nothing else seemed to slow down) and found himself being pulled overby a policeman. The policeman seemed a little crestfallen when a UK licence was produced and handed over a summons - which couldn't cope with UK postcodes - and grudgingly admitted it was all pretty meaningless.Never-the-less we proceeded at a more moderate pace to Niagara where we joined a tour round the attractions, the highlights of which were the elevator ride and boardwalk near the bottom of the American Falls and the ... read more

Carla: Delete as appropriate: “I am astounded / amazed / bored / exasperated to find that the Holden Pilsworths have written yet ANOTHER instalment of their weekly blog”. This week the theme is lakes and also escape; from heat, flatness and thunderstorms. We loved Madison, which was an oasis of right-thinking in the mid-western desert (vegetarian food, organic supermarkets, green concern etc.), and it had four lakes, including Mendota the one Al, George and Ruby swum in, but we needed to get away from the daily temperatures of over 100F and the constant rumble of thunder in the distance. We drove north on Thursday afternoon with the idea of getting as close to Canada as we could without actually going across the border. If we put just a lake (Superior) between us and cooler climes then ... read more

At the Falls.... read more

Our final stop before re-entering Canada was to tour Niagara Falls, one of my bucket list pit-stops, albeit from the US side. We had decided to not travel Highway 401 along the north side of the Great Lakes, because of the volume of traffic, which meant using the US route along the south side of the lakes. I think Niagara Falls is spectacular no matter where it is viewed from, and I was able to capture some great photos, even though it was a cloudy day. Was a great way to finish off this part of the trip. ... read more

What a brilliant experience to have. We stayed with Ray at his B&B home about 2 miles from the falls and whilst there met a lovely German couple, Toby and Lea. We spent a full day walking devil's gorge, a 4 mile hike along the Niagara River. (Hike in English = a walk by the way). We were totally rewarded when we got to the end and seen the American falls, the smaller of the set of falls. We crossed it to see it from the other side and walked a little further to see the House-shoe falls, the larger of the two, which you can't quite see all of from the USA side. Matt and the German's decided to take the adventure of the cave of the winds and get even closer to the falls ... read more