Blogs from Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, North America - page 16

047 - USA - New York 03/25/09 - 04/09/09 New York: A city, a mountain house, and a waterfall New York is one of those truly unique places in the world. The City radiates energy, sometimes good, other times not, that grabs you the moment you step onto that grate-filled sidewalk and get brushed between a high-heeled power suit and an off-duty Pakistani cabbie. Your neck creaks and your eyes absorb the concrete stimulation, while your stomach and $30 drop as you pay for those two martinis at the hidden neighborhood watering hole. It's exhilarating, it's intoxicating, and it's the reason many call New York City the capital of the world! As if that weren't enough, New York state offers you green rural areas, mountainous villages, an international border with Mounties on the other side, and ... read more

We arrived late into Niagara Falls. I blame customs although this time it was the Canadians. It took longer because of ONE person and to make matters worse we weren’t allowed to get off the train until we had their ok. Pfff. Anyway we arrived in sleepy Niagara Falls early evening and made the long walk to the hostel past the bright lights of Clifton Hill (a bit like Las Vegas) and the small amount of people who ventured to Niagara Falls in winter. It was slim pickings that’s for sure. We were greeted by our friendly but slightly strange hostel manager. Everyone was going out for dinner and he wouldn’t take no for an answer. We gathered at 7.30pm - three Aussies, two Dutchies and one strange Canadian. The next day we started late and ... read more

Niagara Falls - another border town, but at the opposite end of the spectrum from Tijuana. The town seemed to have tried to corner the market as Canada’s combined answer to Gretna and Las Vegas. As well as an unparalleled view of the Falls, the opportunity to gamble and tie the knot. The Falls themselves rank in a lowly place in the hierarchy of waterfall height, but represent a pretty impressive wall of water. Whereas our Victoria Falls experience in the “dry” was hardly the smoke that thunders (see Livingstone I Presume) and the Tugela Falls as the second highest waterfall in the world is not exactly immense (see Going over the top in the Drakensberg), the torrents here apparently thunder throughout the year. ... read more

In about 2 months time, I'll be boarding a plane going on a 15 hour journey to Israel for 6 whole months. I am 24 years old, born and raised in Ontario, Canada, not Jewish, have no family there and know (kind of) 3 people in total that live in Israel. The usual reaction I get when I tell someone I'm going to Israel for 6 months by myself is "Are you crazy?" ... The answer to that question is yes but that is not the reason I'm heading on this endeavour. There are quite a few actually... The first and main reason why I'm going is to take a dolphin training course at The Dolphin Reef in Eilat. It has been my dream since I was a little girl to be a dolphin trainer. I ... read more

As part of our long weekend, we drove to Niagara falls. We got a free room upgrade from the hotel and had a falls view of the actual horseshoe falls. By the time we got there and were ready to go out, it was pretty late. We walked across the strip and went to the R Lounge for drinks( lounge bar that overlooks the river and falls) and had some nice local wine and tapas ( Niagara does fantastic wine due to the climate of the area). After a few drinks in the local bars, we went late night gamlbling in the Fallsview Casino. It is the same as Las Vegas style gaming and lost a lot of $ in a short time on roulette. The next day we went on the Maid of the ... read more