Ever since I heard of that long bike route from Niagara Falls, along Lake Ontario and down the St Lawrence River to Montreal, I have been curious what it might be like to cycle it.

   If it would get you away from the motorized traffic, it should be a neat way to head towards eastward on a bike. So, in the summer of 2009, I had some time to kill and decided to ride the stretch from Toronto to Belleville, about 200km. I wanted to explore the experiences that a visitor to Ontario might have, and chose options that might be useful to a typical traveler: I tried restaurants rather than look after my own meals, stayed in a public as well as a private camp ground, took the Go train to get me out of the city quickly, and returned via VIA Rail ......

So, on August 19, a Wednesday, I set out from home on Ontario's Waterfront Trail, and returned on the following Saturday by train from Belleville.