I guess I'd better clarify the post I wrote on Saturday night, when I was fairly intoxicated. There must be a name for that, blogging while drunk. Perhaps Grogging? Intoxiblogging?

Anyway, Fenelon Falls is (was) a village of 1600 people, and it's where this correspondent lived from age 0 til about 19 or 20. Fenelon is pretty much smack dab in the centre of Victoria county, and is a few hours north of the city of Toronto.

Driving through Fenelon takes about 5 minutes, although on a summer weekend it can take up to 3 hours. Driving north, the first landmarks (on your left) are the Canadian Tire and Home Hardware stores. Continuing on, you'll pass the the High School, and then a little further on to your right is a store called Marshalls. Go around back and you'll see a car wash, owned by a couple of friends of mine. Tell them I sent you and, well they probably won't give you a deal, but it'll be a great conversation starter (don't believe anything they say about me).

Continuing down the main street, you'll come to the bridge, and on your left you'll see the falls, and then the locks (part of the Trent-Severn waterway). At this point you are in downtown Fenelon Falls. Stop and plunk down 50 or a hundred bucks at one of the great gift shops. Anyway, continuing north there's not a whole lot you'll find interesting, some fair sized churches, a funeral home, my parents' street, etc. Go back downtown, spend some more money and then have a nice day.

Fenelon and the surrounding area (in fact the whole county, comprising some 20 or so villages and towns) have now been amalgamated into the brand-new "City of Kawartha Lakes", as of 1999 or 2000. If your idea of a city is cottages, lakes, forests, dirt roads, villages, etc. then you won't have a problem with that. But for the rest of us that's a little weird. I won't bore you with the problems that has caused for the residents of this new "city", including tax hikes, loss of local fire dept. service in some areas, etc.

Thus endeth your virtual tour of Fenelon Falls. You are welcome to continue your stay in your imagination, just don't get lost down by the beach.