Okay, enough of me praising the Canadians, lets get going. The five-minute trek down to the car hire place is always interesting; I always have an observant eye open, just in case I spot a moose, Toronto was filled with loads of them when the millennium was happening. .
Have you ever had that feeling when you thought you were awake and totally conscious but in a flash you are about a hundred kilometres away looking at your friends? No? Well, that's just happened to me, my face is pressed up against the glass of the car and Tony is pointing and laughing at me. I am in Ingersoll, the home of the famous cheese factory, no really, Ingersoll is a really small town where the highlight of its attractions is the cheese factory museum. .
Tony (the one who is still pointing and laughing at me as I fail to wake up) is who I am staying with, his wonderful wife Gina and spawn of Satan, Sarah, I mean it, last time I was here she tried to set me on fire, and she's only six. The emotions are flying around like a demented bat that has lost his sense of hearing; this is because we (we as in my family) haven't seen these people for a year. They used to live next door to us for ten years then they decided that they liked us so much that they wanted to emigrate to the other side of the world. I manage to scramble out of the car to have a welcome reception by Tony, he promptly throws me in the swimming pool, we always did have a love hate relationship, I just didn't realise when he said beware of my wild side that it involved me being submerged under six feet of water. .
After a good nights sleep and acclimatising to the time zone I am up and ready to meet the world In Ingersoll town centre there is a supermarket, a LCBO (liquor store to me and you) and a Beer store (and that's a beer store to you and me). The Canadian law is very strict about alcohol, they have to have separate stores for beer and wine and a different store for spirits and heavy liquor, also you have to put it in a brown paper bag so that the general public cant see it and if you wan to drive with alcohol then you have too keep it in the boot of the car, or the "trunk?as they like to call it.
