WIN 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!

Tags: Cottages, Sandbanks, Sandbanks Provincial Park, Sandbanks Summer Village, TASTE! a celebration of regional cuisine