The Best Reasons to Go to Canada for the Afternoon

Blessed are we to have in our sights , and our easy reach , the most utopian of commonwealth , the almighty Canada : land of skunky lagers , violent water ice sports , and bears – lots of bears . To broaden the ethnic horizons of our readers , we advance you Detroiters to get oot and aboot and relish the land of muckle which lies across the parky shores of the Detroit River . Here are a few reasons why :

Play one of the weirdest sports ever

More or less a giant biz of shuffleboard play on sparkler using heather , curling is one of Canada ’s better contribution to the macrocosm . It ’s exciting , but do n’t take our parole for it . If you find yourself under the maple leafage flag sometime between the months of November and March , there ’s a ripe chance you’re able to get in on a secret plan . Try challenging the locals at theRoseland Golf & Curling Club .

See Detroit from the other side

We have a pretty city , no doubt . We ’ve talked up our riverfront plenty , but dontcha know the best place to get a great purview of the city of Detroit is fromWindsor ’s Riverfront Trail .

Drink at one of Canada’s oldest distilleries

A working whiskey still since 1894 , the Hiram Walker plant still farm Canadian Club whisky to sip at your leisure along the waterfront . Also check out theWalkerville Brewery , house in an old distillery warehouse , which has been producing " honorable beers , " in the word of Walker himself , since 1890 .

Visit the closest national park to Detroit

Less than an hr from the Ambassador Bridge isPoint Pelee National Park , one of Canada ’s internal parks , and a peninsula jutting out into Lake Erie . Hiking through the fenland that lead to the lake put you in touch with nature , and you’re able to witness the lake ’s volatile changes from the tip of the peninsula . One of the best times to visit the park is during the one-year monarch butterfly stroke migration in September , when millions of the insects make a pit stop on their means to Mexico , where we presume they go to drink tequila and lounge in the Lord’s Day .

Swim at better lake beaches

On the eastern shore of Lake Huron liesThe Pinery Provincial Park , a small but bountiful park with arenaceous beach and load of , as the name would evoke , trees . It ’s a relatively short distance from Detroit , and offers some of the most beautiful sundown views you ’ll rule on Lake Huron .

Take advantage of Canada’s cheap(er) prescription drugs

This legal - ish bodily function is a comparatively coarse reason for Yanks to cross the border . Being that Canada – like many other countries – actually puts a cap on how much prescription drug should cost , generic drugs are often much loud over there than in the US , ply you do n’t have insurance . Take a copy of a prescription medicine that you receive from a doctor and turn it in to a Canadian pharmacy . Just verify you do n’t crusade the border patrol on your elbow room back in .

Converse with inebriated, 19-year-old Americans

On any given Friday or Saturday night , the likelihood of run into an American teenager see about the benefit of sound crapulence while tramp the streets of Windsor is quite high .

Eat legitimately great Italian food

Windsor ’s Little Italy is home to some of the best Italian restaurant in the greater Detroit area , many of which have been open since the first wafture of Italian immigrants go far in Southern Canada in the early twentieth C , where you may easy rule gnocchi that ’s been handmade with the same recipe for years at place likeNico RistoranteorSpago .

Buy some highly coveted, illegal green liquor

you’re able to actually buy real - deal absinthe , wormwood included , in Canada … which , in casing you forget , you ca n’t lawfully buy in the United States . Why not make a daytime of it and see what makes this stuff so dependable that our country has to ban it ?

Megan Fryeis a writer based in Detroit and Mexico City . Despite being 50 % Canadian , she ’s not always welcomed across the border . squeeze her your in effect Canadian jokes at@fryechild .

Woman preparing absinthe