As I sit and write this I realize that it is day 10 and I am writing about day 6. I need to catch up. My visit to the Bay (as I have heard people here call it) was not what I had hoped. The weather was miserable, the city is sprawling and not as interesting as I had hoped. The one site I had hoped to see – Old Fort William – was closed because of flooding. I did find a lookout and fired to take a panoramic shot of Port Arthur. Unfortunately the pano software I have is not the greatest posting the shot will have to wait till I get home. Who’ll care then – just me probably. Instead, here’s another shot of a Bowater pulp mill in the Fort William of the Bay. That’s as about as interesting as it got.
In the Bay I stayed in a motel and ate in restaurants. The Super 8 motel I stayed at was the cheapest I code find, except for the flea-bags. It did have wireless internet – yeay!!! I got partly caught with my blog.
Foodwise, the first night I ate at the Hoito restaurant – a 75 year old establishment that is part of the Finlandia club. It started in the 30s as a cooperative restaurant established to feed single men who were in town on leave from their logging jobs. The second night I tried the local Thai restaurant. The Tom Yum Gai was very good, as was the pork satay. The main course was something new to me and was bland and soupy – probably the wrong choice. Despite the weak main course, I thought the restaurant not bad for a small city off in the boonies.
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