After staying in a crappy smelling motel room (there was a plaque of bacteria in the toilet; I think this room had been empty for months!), I drove via Detroit into Windsor, Canada. Along the way I had been enjoying The Ricky Gervais show (a must listen, hilarious!). What a difference! In Detroit and its suburbs you see a lot of poverty, many coloured people, industry (huge BP refinery and steel factories) while in Canada you see lovely houses, broad street, lots of trees and greens.

I wanted to visit the Detroit museum of contemporary art, but when I got there they were taping some kind of documentary about the Detroit music scene and the museum did not have anything on display, so I decided to head for Canada. Canadian customs was quite friendly and easy to pass, quite a difference from US customs.

Since Chicago I have set my TomTom to ignore the highways, so I could get to see some countryside instead of just the highway. It’s been great in Canada. The countryside near lake Eerie (the most shallow and most polluted of the great lakes) resembles the Dutch countryside a bit, many farms, meadows, trees and nice towns with broad green streets. So far I would say I would prefer Canada over the USA.

The funny thing was that, while driving through the Lake Eerie region I passed a really eerie house!

After a day’s drive I checked into the Queensway Motel in Simcoe, Ontario. About 110 kms from the Niagara Falls. Luckily they had wireless internet so I booked a hotel room for 5 nights in Toronto where I will arrive tomorrow.

After getting some Mediteranian Pasta from the Italian restaurant next door (and having a chat with the waitresses) I went back to the motel to have dinner and watch some telly. And what was on? Our happy Dutch fiddler: André Rieu in Vienna!

André Rieu keeps haunting me; in Australia they had André Rieu cardboard stands at every post office, he was in New Zealand as well and here he is selling DVD’s at some tell sell channel. And how expensive it is! The DVD for CAD $ 100,- (â?¬ 66,-) and the DVD + CD for CAD $ 150,- (â?¬ 100,-). I think these DVD were MUCH cheaper in Oz.

He even advertised his own DVD’s: ‘Hi, André hier!‘…

Oh, and they’ve got roadkill here as well. I’ve seen deer, birds, buterflies (do count as proper roadkill really) and raccoons: