46. ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PANDEMIC - ALMOST
Two weeks since my second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine: the pandemic is not over but I feel safer. Like many locals and tourists wandering about in the streets of Victoria, I’ve looked back at what was prohibited during the more stringent times and am now looking forward. What’s next? What can we do now that restrictions are eased? What has been lost? What cannot be recovered? Last July – a year ago – I had planned to bring my nine-year old granddaughter to Niagara Falls. We’d fly from Victoria to Toronto, bus or rent a car, and drive around Niagara for a few days. Yes, the usual tourist attractions and activities (see the Falls, ride the Hornblower cruise, walk Clifton Hill, hike the Glen, climb Brock’s Monument, cruise the parkway – perhaps to Niagara-on-the-Lake for ice cream) formed the bulk of the itinerary and there were the lesser attractions – remnants from my past. This is where Chinatown use t...