Daytripping Spring 2023
Daytripping is a Free Magazine filled from start to finish with all of the best Odd, Antique & Unique Shops, Events & Unexpected Stops
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The<br />
Daytripper<br />
<strong>Daytripping</strong> to the Historic Village of SPARTA<br />
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&<br />
Skeeter Barlows is #1! See page 23<br />
Blackburn radio hosts a Munch Madness contest<br />
to have people vote on the Favourite Restaurant in<br />
Sarnia-Lambton and Skeeter Barlow’s is #1 for <strong>2023</strong>.<br />
This grill and pub boasts a patio overlooking Lake<br />
Huron, great food and an unpretentious atmosphere.<br />
The Best of Windsor-Essex<br />
Tourism Windsor-Essex-Pelee Island also hosts a contest<br />
to select fan favourites, this time too many categories to<br />
name them all here but you can find them at www.bestofwindsoressex.ca<br />
Kingsville did well again this year being voted Best Shopping District for the third<br />
year running, and other winners included Cindy’s Home & Garden as Best Boutique<br />
Shop, Pelee Island Winery for Best Winery Experience, and Jack’s Gastropub for the<br />
Best Lake-to-Plate dining. Amherstburg’s Wolfhead Distillery won for Best Art-of-the-<br />
Cocktail.<br />
We were there when they were only 50! See page 57<br />
As they celebrate their 75th year, we can never say enough good things about<br />
Pinecroft in Aylmer - if you’ve never been there you’re just cheating yourself. At<br />
heart it’s a pottery studio in a man-made, pine forest that was a labour of love passed<br />
on by the family’s ancestors, but it’s also a fantastic gift shop, wonderful restaurant<br />
and much more. Take a trip down Roger’s Road and you’ll be glad you did.<br />
While you’re in the neighbourhood! See pages 55 & 57<br />
Within a few minutes drive of Pinecroft you’re also going to find Shaw’s Ice Cream<br />
where they’re also celebrating their 75th anniversary and<br />
New Sarum<br />
came out with a stunning, new, nostalgic look<br />
Diner<br />
a few years back. Then<br />
there’s the timeless New<br />
Sarum Diner which is<br />
a landmark along Hwy.<br />
#3 and is turning 80 this<br />
year! More and more<br />
great food - bring an<br />
appetite!!!<br />
Fly Me to The Moon, or to Exeter<br />
There’s an ad on page 47 for GAIA but we wanted<br />
to encourage those not familiar with it to look<br />
further into this. Luke Jerram’s famous installation<br />
is an exact replica of the Earth that’s over 20 feet<br />
wide with surround sound composition by BAFTA<br />
award-winning composer, Dan Jones. It’s visiting<br />
Exeter as part of the <strong>2023</strong> Huron Waves Music<br />
Festival season and will be suspended from the<br />
ceiling of Trivitt Memorial Church Auditorium from<br />
June 1st to July 3rd. This is the sculpture’s first<br />
Canadian Festival appearance. Tickets should be<br />
reserved in advance.<br />
The Antique Tour is easier than ever. See page 72<br />
We made a long overdue change in our last issue that you may have noticed. For<br />
years there were “Antique Tour” pages where all the ads for antique shops were<br />
grouped together. The problem was that there were too many shops to fit on one<br />
page so we had two or more “tours” in different parts of the magazine. And, you<br />
also wouldn’t see an antique shop alongside the other shops in a specific region.<br />
<strong>Daytripping</strong> takes a reader from town to town to find the best stops, so we now have<br />
these ads with other stores they’re close to (i.e. Tillsonburg Antiques is now on the<br />
Tillsonburg page). However, we also now have one back page that’s free to all these<br />
customers with a map and a listing of all the antique shops together in one place.<br />
We still have many farm markets grouped together on pages 35-37, and breweries/<br />
wineries/cideries/meaderies are together on page 28, so you still need to do a bit of<br />
hunting and planning, but it’s a start.<br />
Events and Town Wide Yard Sales are back! See pages 68-71<br />
We could almost handle two years of no events, but two summers with no Town<br />
Wide Yard Sales was torture for some of us! They made a comeback last year but<br />
should be back in full force - there are over 60 on our events list on pages 68-<br />
71. Gather your quarters and loonies and get on the road early. Please remember<br />
that these are usually “unofficial” events and you should be prepared for anything,<br />
including disappointment. We suggest having a backup plan in case there aren’t as<br />
many sales as there will be in Petrolia, the year’s first event on April 28-29 and one<br />
of the largest. Bring bicycles if you can—it’s a perfect way to maneuver through the<br />
streets while exploring a different town.<br />
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Don’t google Chuck Norris, if he wants to find you, he will.<br />
<strong>Spring</strong> <strong>2023</strong>
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