While some New Englanders insist on 3-hour drives to the Cape, or overbooked ferries to the Vineyard, others opt to head north, just over the Canadian border to Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. This town over the years has enjoyed prosperity as a naval centre, armed forces training base and a 19th-century summer resort. Formerly a haven for [...]
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If you’re traveling internationally with your iPhone, BEWARE. It’s not the phone charges that will kill you, it’s the international data roaming rates! While I was recently in Canada on business, I received the following email from AT&T. “Our current data charges based on data use of 475.83 MB since leaving the US are: $7,137.45! [...]
Most people don’t think of Ontario as a wine-growing region; however, it lies at the same latitude as Bordeaux. That and the cooling effect of Lake Ontario makes for a perfect micro-climate. Believe it or not, over 103 wineries in Ontario brought in $80 million to Ontario in 2008. Thanks to a few pioneers like [...]