You never step in the same river twice. Right from the top of the front deck view the skyline of Niagara, Canada, Niagara USA and Rochester, N.Y.
We were making our way to the Rila Mountains, where we were visiting the Rila Monastery where we enjoyed scrambled eggs, toast, mekitsi, local jam and peppermint tea.
From the property in Oakville with its gem of a boathouse, yes a boathouse with tracks from the 50s right in Central Oakville and most probably THE ONLY boathouse in Central Oakville converted into a seating area bar right on the shoreline of Lake Ontario . You have a two-minute walk to your Fortino’s supermarket, Starbucks, and Spas. And drive two minutes further away and you have all the elegant restaurants either in Downtown Oakville as 7 Enoteca, Stoney’s Bread Company restaurant or Kerr Street Cafe in Kerr Village Just three minutes away from the boathouse. Who said you had to drive for 4 to 6 hours to Muskoka waterfronts. Whole Foods Market just 5 minutes away.
Longo’s 6 minutes and all that just minutes away from your waterfront deck seen here which is on top of your very private boathouse with a private bar with teak flooring and old English brown oak cabinets, a 200 inch genuine high quality cozy bar counter and a beer and juice bar right behind the counter. Traditional mews doors and a Clopay roll-up glass door with thermal double glazed windows to provide you an all-season view of the tides and waves on Lake Ontario with the swans, geese, ducks, paddle boarders, canoe paddlers, kayakers, sail boaters and motor boaters together with the Sea-Doos. And of course, the magnificent major sailing club regatta held twice a week right in front of the boathouse with their majestically rolled up sails, at top speed, when the wind blows over the sails’ surface creating a lift propelling the sailers’s boats.
A Welcoming Japanese Light Ushering Guests
Located in Central Oakville, in one of the most exclusive neighbourhoods like none other.
Headed over Lions Bridge and made our way to the Sofia Synagogue, then sheltered in the Central Market Hall until the recurrent (but short-lived) mid-afternoon rain passed.
Feeling refreshed after an espresso, we walked a short distance to the small but welcoming Banya Bashi Mosque, then descended into the ancient Serdica complex.
We were exhausted after a long day of travel, so we headed back to the hotel and crashed.
I had low expectations about Sofia as a city, but after the walking tour I absolutely loved the place. This was an easy city to navigate, and it was a beautiful city – despite its ugly, staunch and stolid communist-built surrounds. Sofia has a very average facade as you enter the city, but once you lose yourself in the old town area, everything changes.
Clothes can transform your mood and confidence. Fashion moves so quickly that, unless you have a strong point of view, you can lose integrity. I like to be real. I don’t like things to be staged or fussy. I think I’d go mad if I didn’t have a place to escape to. You have to stay true to your heritage, that’s what your brand is about.
