Elora - Blogabond

Another fairly early wake-up courtesy of Iggy who was keen to ensure that we understood how pleased he was to see us at 05:30. After a leisurely start we did some shopping for provisions and went to see where Ollie & Ang will be living from September. A lovely modern town House near a lake and the university.

Cedar tiled roof

In the afternoon we went to Elora, a pretty village on a gorge. The village had the air of a former industrial area which had declined before being restored to a certain gentility. The feature that gave rise to its original status was the river which cascades through a small gorge powering a mill. The mill is now a restaurant with superb views of the tumbling waters rushing past a tooth of rock in the middle of the flow, down a cascade into the throat of the gorge and along the gorge itself, before merging with another, gently flowing river some 400 metres later. We walked through the village to Victoria Park, which has views along the gorge along with the regulatory 'Lover's Leap' from which a distraught Indian maiden threw herself after her lover was killed in Battle.

Cooling our feet

We found some steps down to the tributary which while fast flowing was not too deep and took the opportunity to cool our overheated feet, paddling in the water.

We got back to Waterloo, popping in to Canadian Tire to collect a coolbag to take with us to the West coast. Ollie made pizza dough, collecting Ang while it rose and we had a wonderful home-made pizza for dinner. Afterwards we played a game of 'Leading Question' in which you have to match answers to a given question to the individual who gave the answer, this was great fun – and Sue won by a mile!! Shrewsbury College staff take note!

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rickandsuejohnson on July 26, 2010 from Elora, Canada

from the travel blog: Go west, then go west some more.

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