Niagra

All the way to Niagra Falls and I forgot to charge my camera battery.  Nevertheless,  it was spectacular!  Word of warning – you get SOAKED!!!  I got quite sunburned but we all know that sunburn is potential tan!!!  This was the only photo I got in before my battery died.  The rest are my good auld Nokia camera phone!

The river looks unbelievably polluted. However this is not a polluted river as our tour guide insisted!  When the water comes over the falls, it opouds the clay on the bottom of the river which rises to the surface and looks like pond scum.  Additionally, more firemen & mountain rescue reserves are used to rescue young men from the rocks each year showing off to their ladies than are used to fight fires and crime combined!

We also visited Canada’s prettiest town, Niagra on The Lake in which I discovered Mr. George Bernard Shaw!  They’re celebrating the Shaw Festival in Canada at present at it is named after our very own GBS!  What a nice surprise.  This was followed by a very brief visit to Fort George where I learned about Canadian Independence – achieved in 1867 on 144 years ago! 

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Following this we visited TO’s largest vineyard and winery where I tasted Ice Wine – made from grapes harvested by hand in winter following 3 consecutive nights of -10’ to -14’C weather so the grapes are frozen when picked.  It was a very sweet wine, 28 on the sugar scale, not to my fine wine standards!

Overall Canada was magical.  It is a beautiful country with some of the world’s nicest, most polite and efficient people.  I hadn’t heard anyone say ‘Aboot’ or ‘Ay’ unfortunately :[ I’m looking forward to exploring the West Coast later on in the year!

For now it’s onward to California! Surf’s Up San Diego!!!  There doesn't seem to be any surf on Pacific beach though. Nevertheless, MSW has been known to be wrong!!

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On a slightly more serious note, I would like to thank whomever it was of himself’s friends for destroying what little bit of kindness that was left between us.  By exaggerating what a certain blog post said to excessive heights, too many words and too much bad blood has been exchanged as I tried to explain what was going on. 

I don’t openly advertise the existence of this blog. I have statistics, I’m fully aware that nobody reads it and that is why it contains an element of my personal feelings and unrest.  If I’m upset, I write it down and it helps.  By lying about what a post said to the one person in the world that I loved more than anything, you have done nothing to help either of us, only destroy any respect or understanding we still had, leaving nothing but bitterness between us. All that is left of a one time amazing relationship is a harsh exchange of emails and tears.

I find it quite disturbing that you found the link mid conversation on my facebook page with my friend Emma.  She asked how I was getting on, I linked her to my diary.  I did not post the link publicly on Facebook for the whole world to see as you stated.

If it was as bad as you claimed it to be, why did you not email me and ask me to take it down?  Rather instead, you took one or two lines of what I’d said and ran with it.  A game of Chinese whispers later and I’ve suddenly destroyed peoples’ careers.  

When you love someone you do not set out a sly game of tactics to tarnish their name and destroy their career.  He is the only person who's ever seen me cry, do you honestly think I wanted the whole world to know how badly I've taken this?  I'm not saying that I'm a saint here,  I called him every name under the sun but if you had been astute and actually read it you would have seen that it was a painstaking tale of a heartbroken girl trying to figure out what the fuck had gone wrong.  I booked this trip the next day.  You exaggerated it beyond belief and, as I assume was your intention, I now feel like total shit.

Thank you kindly.