Rideau Canal
Last weekend we went to Ottawa, Canada's capital. And one can't visit Ottawa in winter without skating on the Rideau Canal (except for Tinneke of course who didn't want to put her infamous clumsiness to the test).
Skating is like riding a bike. You never forget.
Petra teaching me how to skate backwards.
We met up with our friends Craig & Nath and kids for an afternoon of skating and beaver tail eating (think a doughnut slapped and shaped into a .... eh, well you get it). Nathalie made a great curry afterwards that got the last morsels of cold out of our system.). On Sunday we took a trip to the LCBO, Ontario's state-owned liquor store (and counterpart of Quebec's SAQ). In general wine is much cheaper in Ontario than in Quebec (up to $3 difference per bottle), beer on the other hand is more expensive. Also, their range of products is different favouring Canadian, USA and New World wines instead of SAQ's preference for la douce France. Also certain types of alcohol are much more common to find.
So we left the LCBO with an empty wallet, but 10 bottles of Cline Zinfandel and Cline Zinfandel Ancient Vines (I've grown very fond of the Zin's during our little trip to California last fall), Soju (think Korean vodka), Singha Beer (impossible to find this dry smooth Thai beer here) and 3 new bottles of Single Malt to add to my (very empty) collection: the classic Oban 14y, Scapa 14y (from the Orkey Islands) and a very special WMD II The Yellow Submarine Bruichladdich 14y (Islay).
Skating is like riding a bike. You never forget.
Petra teaching me how to skate backwards.
Even the police was having fun!
We met up with our friends Craig & Nath and kids for an afternoon of skating and beaver tail eating (think a doughnut slapped and shaped into a .... eh, well you get it). Nathalie made a great curry afterwards that got the last morsels of cold out of our system.). On Sunday we took a trip to the LCBO, Ontario's state-owned liquor store (and counterpart of Quebec's SAQ). In general wine is much cheaper in Ontario than in Quebec (up to $3 difference per bottle), beer on the other hand is more expensive. Also, their range of products is different favouring Canadian, USA and New World wines instead of SAQ's preference for la douce France. Also certain types of alcohol are much more common to find.
So we left the LCBO with an empty wallet, but 10 bottles of Cline Zinfandel and Cline Zinfandel Ancient Vines (I've grown very fond of the Zin's during our little trip to California last fall), Soju (think Korean vodka), Singha Beer (impossible to find this dry smooth Thai beer here) and 3 new bottles of Single Malt to add to my (very empty) collection: the classic Oban 14y, Scapa 14y (from the Orkey Islands) and a very special WMD II The Yellow Submarine Bruichladdich 14y (Islay).
posted by E. Stilker at 2:52 PM
1 Comments:
de sneeuw- en ijspret ziet er super leuk uit, maar de lente mag er van mij toch dringend is aan beginnen zene :)
neal
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