A Little Tour of Kingston With Carl

Hey everyone! This is Carl. I thought I would help out Leah with the blog and give this a go (She might have forced me in to it). Things at school are going well. There is lots and lots of reading but stuff is starting to sink in a little bit.

Below are some pictures that Leah and I took on a Sunday walk.

These first two pictures are both of Princess Street which is the main drag in Kingston. It is a very cool street. It is mostly retail with a few restaurants and many of the businesses have apartment suites on the second and third floors (apparently a good thing in the urban planning world).

Below is the Farmer's Market Square. This is the longest running ongoing market square in Canada. It operates a few days a week with venders selling produce, flowers and flea market goodies. The police car in the picture makes it look a little ghetto but I can assure you the biggest worry here is jaywalking and unruly seniors.

This is an actual carriage home that are found in many back ally ways in Kingston. This would have housed a horse and carriage (hence the name). Now they just hold cars.

I don't know much about this house other than it looks like a castle and Leah made me promise that I would buy it for her. Our teacher told us that this house is so sought after that it often changes owners before ever going on the market.

This is the house next door. I told Leah that it was haunted and convinced her that it was probably best that we didn't buy a home next to a haunted house. She thought that was very wise.

These trees don't look very exciting but the reason they are lined up the way they are is that when the park was designed (a very long time ago) these trees were planted to form an ally that horses and carriages could travel down.

This building was built to be a hospital back in the 1800's. Unfortunately they didn't have any money left over to hire obviously needed doctors. So what did they do with the building? It became the home to Canada's first united government. After four years it was converted back to a hospital and is still used as one today (Kingston General Hospital).

So that is a quick tour of Kingston. You still need to come and visit because I promise it is much better in person.