{"id":666,"date":"2011-10-08T21:28:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T21:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.funoftravel.com\/stratford\/?p=666"},"modified":"2011-12-07T15:13:25","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T15:13:25","slug":"day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funoftravel.com\/stratford\/?p=666","title":{"rendered":"DAY 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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breakfast<\/span>\u00a0Tango Cafe & Grill<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0go<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/strong>The cafe’s highlight color, red, brightens our day. Local art, colorful and exuberant, intensifies the mood. Cafe offers traditional breakfast fare made with fresh ingredients. Coffee, tea, juices, eggs, house baked muffins and scones.<\/p>\n

9 am<\/span><\/strong> visit\u00a0Monforte Dairy<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0go<\/a><\/span><\/strong>
\nLocated south of Stratford in an industrial building with murals of goats, sheep and cows. Ruth Klahsen, artisanal cheese maker uses locally sourced milk from goats, sheep, and mares to\u00a0produce 30 different cheeses to sell at 31 farmers markets in Ontario province.\u00a0The entry and main room reflect turn of the century farm house and function as a gift shop and cheese sales room. Tasting encouraged. Ruth believes agriculture ought to be practiced on a human scale and wants her cheeses to “reflect a little of the poetry and\u00a0passion of life itself”. We don caps and booties to view the in progress cheese making afterwards view the aging rooms housing a $300,000 inventory.<\/p>\n

10 am<\/span><\/strong> experience\u00a0Stratford Tea Leaves<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0go<\/a><\/span><\/strong>
\nOn the main level of a tidy preserved Victorian home we enter what must have been parlor and dining room. Here, in just one hour Karen Hartwick, Canada \u0019s Tea Sommelier, conducts a tea tasting which includes single estate teas and her own organic herb teas. She\u00a0speaks of the delicacy and subtleness in tea flavor. We taste Organic White Peony, Organic Chun Mee, Bancha Suruga, Jade Oolang, Uunnan Black Needle, and a 2 year old fermented Pu-erh, compare bitterness vs. sweetness, mouth feel, color, sheen, dryness (of\u00a0leaf) and fragrance. Tea culture, growing, picking, processing, grading, proper storage, proper water temperature and timing of the brew are discussed. Karen introduces us to pairing tea with a variety of local honeys and chocolate.<\/p>\n

Noon<\/span><\/strong> media lunch\u00a0Stratford Shakespeare Festival<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0go<\/a><\/span><\/strong>
\nDelicious buffet lunch in the Festival Theatre Board Room. Press from far and wide listen attentively as Ann Swerdfager, Publicity Director, discusses the new season. The room throbs with excitement about the new season opening tonight. It’s sunny and warm, the\u00a0spring gardens are in glorious bloom, the opening should be a smash.<\/p>\n

2 pm<\/span><\/strong> tour\u00a0Festival’s Costume and Props Warehouse<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0go<\/a><\/span><\/strong>
\nThousands of costumes and hundreds of props catalogued and stored here: one of the largest costume warehouses in North America. A close-up look at what the Festival \u0019s world-class designers, wardrobe staff and prop-makers create. You can try on costumes and\u00a0get a picture. Great photo op!<\/p>\n

6 pm<\/span><\/strong> dinner\u00a0Simple Fish & Chips<\/span>\u00a0go<\/a><\/span><\/strong>
\nWalk-ins OK but probably will wait at this smallish seafood\/vegetarian restaurant serving healthy simple good for you food, well prepared and attractively presented. Fish and Chips offered with choice of six different fish. Also 7 dishes with lobster as ingredient.\u00a0Outdoor patio and take out. Kids OK. Don’t miss this one.<\/p>\n

8 pm<\/span><\/strong> see\u00a0Camelot<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0opening\u00a0go<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0Festival Theatre<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0go<\/a><\/span><\/strong>
\nCamelot\u00a0Director Gary Griffen says “Camelot, a musical of truly classical power. The story centers on a love triangle between extraordinary people who pursue extraordinary visions of themselves: to be king, to be queen, to be the greatest of knights.” But the human\u00a0part of each conflicts with the ideals they hold and how they are challenged by fundamental questions – the rule of law, and the best way to govern. No superficiality here, this musical ventures into the same serious territory as a play.<\/p>\n

stay<\/span> Mercer Hall Inn<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0go<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Day 2 photo gallery<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

breakfast\u00a0Tango Cafe & Grill\u00a0go The cafe’s highlight color, red, brightens our day. Local art, colorful and exuberant, intensifies the mood. Cafe offers traditional breakfast fare made with fresh ingredients. Coffee, tea, juices, eggs, house baked muffins and scones. 9 am visit\u00a0Monforte Dairy\u00a0go Located south of Stratford in an industrial building with murals of goats, sheep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funoftravel.com\/stratford\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funoftravel.com\/stratford\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funoftravel.com\/stratford\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funoftravel.com\/stratford\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funoftravel.com\/stratford\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.funoftravel.com\/stratford\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funoftravel.com\/stratford\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funoftravel.com\/stratford\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funoftravel.com\/stratford\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funoftravel.com\/stratford\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}