Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/08/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You have no idea what we used to go through even at the airports - though I have no idea if it still is like that. I have not set foot in the USA since 2002 after some treatment, from illiterate and ignorant TSA goons, that I would not wish on anybody, at JFK airport, so I decided that the only way I could protest was to take my tourist $$$$ elsewhere... Cheers Jayanand On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Nathan Wajsman <nwajsman at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > > Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Image licensing: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman > Blog: http://www.nathansmusings.eu/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >