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WISH YOU WERE HERE!

Saturday, August 21st, 2010

ttc-blog-kidsWIN A SUMMER IN PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY
I’m so lucky to live in Prince Edward County. Sorry to sound chauvinistic, but there it is. Oh I leave occasionally, to visit people and our kids (not that our kids aren’t people, too) in Toronto and Europe. But I adore getting off the highway and crossing the bridge at Carrying Place and being home. Okay, it’s another 20 minutes until I’m really home, but at that point I’ve got my lake, my birds, my fields and my sky. Big sigh.

My point is, if I didn’t live in Cherry Valley, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada, North America, The World, The Universe – I would jump at the chance to enter a contest to win a whole summer in the County. Yowza! Four weeks in a cottage close to Sandbanks Provincial Park (biggest freshwater dunes in the world, folks) plus a ton of entertainment, food and wine thrown in. It’s another brilliant idea cooked up by the economic development office and Taste the County™ together with Sandbanks Summer Village, who are great sponsors of local initiatives – like the TASTE! event and now this whole Summer in the County thing for 2011. Sandbanks Summer Village is an old-fashioned, state-of-the-art cottage resort in Cherry Valley, and, no, that’s not an oxymoron. From what I’ve seen and heard it has all the laid-back charm of an old-style lake resort, and a heck of a lot more conveniences. But I digress.

So, Sandbanks Summer Village are contributing four weeks accommodation for FREE and local wineries, restaurants, galleries, even a cooking school, are adding wining, dining, entertainment and goodness knows what else to the prize.

Anybody in Canada can enter, and, get this, they have an online ballot you can fill out. You can see the ballot and all the prize details at www.visitpec.ca/contest. No point in me entering. I can already just ride my bike down to Sandbanks to swim, then come home and drink some County wine in my garden. Wish you were here? Enter the contest!

Creating experiences with family and friends

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

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My first visit to Prince Edward County was on a crisp November day. It reminded me a lot of the place where I grew up. While searching for the perfect area for our new cottage resort, Prince Edward County was suggested to us by a person who was helping us in the search. We rented a car and spent the weekend driving around the County. While admiring the rural landscape, the hamlets and the shoreline, I wondered, if it looks this good in November, it must be dynamite in the spring, summer and fall as well.

The County reminds me a lot of Long Island, where I visited my grandparents as a child. I grew up as a country boy in Westford, Massachusetts, and would visit my grandparents each summer. With the mixture of newer vineyards and older farms, Prince Edward County is going through a similar evolution to the one I experienced by the North Fork of Long Island all those years ago.

In our opinion, one of the reasons our Sandbanks Summer Village will be such a hit is because of the memories that will be created in such a unique and picturesque part of the country. Visitors and guests alike will be eager for their families to share the same sorts of memories that we have, those of us who have known Long Island, Cape Cod or the County.

I absolutely plan to bring my family here. My wife, our three boys and our yellow Lab are going to love the charm of the area. We will enjoy it from the comforts of the resort nestled on East Lake’s shoreline near the beautiful world-renowned Sandbanks beach.

As I’ve said before, our Summer Village is not the destination. Prince Edward County is the destination. We’re providing a resort with amenities for those who want them. The true destination is the County’s natural setting and its people, wineries and heritage.

Prince Edward County’s oceanic water and sand dunes system are going to win over the hearts of everyone who sees them, just as they’ve won over mine.

Howard “Chip” Hall