Boy in a Big Country: Niagara Falls, etc.

After an eight hour bus journey to Buffalo, New York, I hopped on a local bus to Niagara because I just love buses and can't get enough of them...

Here's the view of the falls from the American side.

I then walked across the border into Canada.

In neither The USA nor Canada did a British boy find himself. Take a photo to mark the occasion, he did.

I met up with some friends who I know from my first year teaching in Korea, who were also visiting Niagara for the day. We were quite the multinational group, with an American, a Canadian, an Australian and myself the British. 'HOW DO YOU ALL KNOW EACH OTHER!?' thought everyone who found this out.

Yohan the Yank, Gigi the Aussie and Yoda the... Canadian (Is there another word for that?)

We bought our tickets for the Hornblower boat tour. Those on the Canadian side wear red ponchos, and those on the American side wear blue. There were also some people in yellow ponchos, who obviously didn't understand the game.

This is a TWO THUMBS UP moment.

A boat for the red team.

After lunch, we looked around the nearby area for a short while before heading deeper into Canada for further exploration. We stopped by a monument, a tiny little chapel, a market and closed off the day in Niagara on the Lake, a small town covered in colourful flowers and quaint buildings.

This is the Floral Clock, a sixty five year old clock which changes its flowers twice a season.

We visited Brock's Monument. It's a war memorial for Major Brock who died in the War of 1812.

I bought three local apples and a glass of apple cider from the market. I was expecting alcoholic cider but it was just apple juice which was a disappointment but delicious none the less. Why couldn't they just say apple juice?!

Next to the market was a very small chapel. We took a look inside and found that there was enough seating for nine in only slight discomfort. Asking inside the market, I found that the biggest wedding they'd held was upwards of twenty people, with guests poking their heads in the window and standing at the door.