Day 20 Sat-Finding Home!

Another side adventure over…Time to pack and head back home to Tim and Jess’s….we had a bagel with salmon, crème cheese and capers before setting off…We left Tim and Jess as they were heading straight home..we wanted to try and go along as much of the Lake as possible…
But before we set off there were a couple of spots to look at in Belleville…One being a beautiful old Manson Glanmore built on 1882-83 for a wealthily banker it was designed in the style of Domestic Second Empire architecture….now I am not sure what that style is or was but it looked lovely.
Then off to try and find a little building on the Lakes edge that looked worth a look…. we saw it from the bridge we drive over Thurs night when we went to Wellington. Well we couldn’t find it but did find a group of Long Boat rows at another marina area and the mouth of a river that flowed from the city into the Lake…

Not having time to try and find my cute little building we drive around the Downtown section of the city, bought our fuel ⛽️ then set off for home….

Next stop a Drawbridge on the Murray canal that was man made cutting straight through the narrow strip of land connecting Prince Edward County with the north shore of Lake Ontario, the Murray Canal is an 8 kilometre canal cut linking Lake Ontario with the Bay of Quinte. It was constructed between 1882-1889 to provide an alternative shipping route to the treacherous waters surrounding Prince Edward County. Presqu'ile Bay will lead you to the Murray Canal and its two road bridges: Brighton Road Swing Bridge and Carrying Place Swing Bridge.

We thought we could go along this canal,all the way to the main lake…but sadly it was blocked off….so inland ish we headed seeing the lake here and there….heaps and heaps of new estates and new homes, some again ridiculously huge that had taken over beautiful farming land….all about the $ isn’t it…

We stopped in a little place called Corburn for morning tea…it really was very difficult trying to find somewhere to have it…the towns, villages…cities not sure what to call them didn’t seem to have many cafe’s coffee shops on offer…this place had about 3 thrift shops would loved to have looked…but with John by my side hmmmm don’t think so…he doesn’t like thrift shopping…

We bought a Butter Tart with pecans ohh my goodness was it rich couldn’t eat all the little tart just far to rich….very similar to my pecan tart recipe I have had for over 40 yrs…but mine not as rich…

Off we headed past farms, what I thought was villages but turned out be cities with many from 11,000 the smallest number of people to over 150,000 none as small as home…I was very confused because you just expected them to be smaller than they were…

We drove and drove though and past so many places and all the time looking for somewhere for lunch…we eventually ended up on the main Freeway yuk….through Toronto into Toronto on the other side looking to follow the lake…but no such luck…and trying to find a little place to eat was proving harder and harder…we eventually found one by accident and decided it had to do by now it was 2.30pm and this place shut at 3pm so we quickly ordered…A corn-meat sandwich with a side of chips… well you would have thought a corn meat sandwich 🥪 would have had other stuff in it and we should know by now when you order here look what’s on it…it either comes with more than you thought but in most cases none of what you thought….very basic, very bland as we are discovering much of the food is very tasteless….the potatoes were part fried, part cooked on a stove top certainly not chips….pretty cold….the sandwich did have lots of very thin corn meat on it but that was it…don’t even think it had butter… well it was food so we could continue to find our way back home….
We did come back past the massive mansions we saw on the way up…but more if this time as we started at the beginning of where they were…last time we ducked out halfway through them…
Wasn’t long before we had to get back into a Hwy so no more sights to see…

We made it home at 4.30 pm…only took Tim and Jess 3 hours us all day…but we are getting to see the country…
Phoenix had been in Doggo Care again and has come home with a real limp on his back right hind…Tim had taken him to the Vets before we headed away the first trip and they started him on treatment…but all his partying has left him quite limp poor little guy…

My turn for dinner so off to Farm Boy to buy a hot 🔥 chook….ha ha when I asked the girls from my weekend away about their hot chooks they were truly miffed…what is a hot chooook they asked…ha ha us and our Aussie slang…explaining a Hot Chicken…trust me…
We bought salad 🥗 to have with it and Jess made home made garlic bread 🥖…finally food with flavour… it really does come down to what your used to…and in Australia 🇦🇺 we really are so, so very very spoilt for so much choice and so much variety and so many flavours …until you travel I think we take it fir granted … but to be honest I haven’t been to too many countries that serve great tasty food…plus being a tourist makes it hard to access true flavours you only get to experience that when you with a local…that’s when you find the true flavours and tastes of a country…Read more