Elora gorge

From Toronto we continued north to Elora gorge. This is the agricultural part of Ontario with views of farms and fields. Also in this area live the Mennonites. They are a group of christian people who very much like the Amish, live non modern life. They work their fields with horses and also use buggies as a mean of transportation. outside the local supermarket there's a special horse parking and as you can imagine, it's not so hygienic... They dress up like in the old days of "Little house in the prairie" and we spotted tens of little Laure Ingles.

Elora is a sweet little artistic town. We saw the Grand River gorge and strolled through the streets. There are many statues and art works along the streets. This taxi car is a small gallery. As you look through its windows you see few exhibits inside. Then we took a long bike trail around the area.Biking allows seeing the area in more details and revealing hidden spots. For example we ran into this surreal store, specializing in lawn mowers, chain saws and naturally... used books. The place is heaven or readers. We loaded our backpack with children books and moved on.

We ended up in the local museum, featuring the place history. The beautiful house started as a poor house in the late 1800's.