{"id":1237,"date":"2014-07-27T06:45:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T06:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelinontario.com\/blog\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2014-07-27T06:45:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T06:45:33","slug":"cottage-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelinontario.com\/blog\/eastern-ontario\/quinte-country-and-prince-edward-county\/cottage-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Edward County Cottage Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cottage life at a cottage where you likely will never stay<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The term &#8220;cottage&#8221; in Canada is sometimes interchanged with cabin.  Chalet is frequently used, especially near ski hills.  All these terms evoke in our minds a place away from the constant commotion of the city.<\/p>\n<p>In the past few years, some of the monster homes have been built that have been given the appellation cottage.  Perhaps &#8220;summer place&#8221; would be more appropriate.  However, no matter what name you use for cottage, I&#8217;ve always associated the term with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelinontario.com\/Quinte-Country-and-Prince-Edward-County.cfm\">Prince Edward County<\/a>, which is in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelinontario.com\/Eastern-Ontario.cfm\">Eastern Ontario<\/a> about 2 hours from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelinontario.com\/toronto.cfm\">Toronto<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For me a cottage is a refuge from the normal either professional or personal workloads.  In some cases it means changing from the home tool shed to the cottage tool shed, but at least it&#8217;s different.  More importantly, you should be able to change pace, preferably slow down, and contemplate different things, even if it&#8217;s reading a book you&#8217;ve been unable to find the time for at home.<\/p>\n<p>In our latest trip to Prince Edward County, we were very lucky to rent a cottage that is not normally rent-able.  The owners have perfected the art of Canadiana decoration for cottages.  Mixed with the peaceful lakeside scenery, members of our party referred to the location as paradise, which is a term often used for tropical locations.  If you&#8217;ve ever been to Prince Edward County in the heart of winter, you&#8217;d know it was not tropical!<\/p>\n<p>When choosing a cottage to rent or borrow, the key elements you should be looking for are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Access to water <br \/>(for swimming, canoeing, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Quiet location <br \/>(no point being as loud as the city)<\/li>\n<li>Usable kitchen <br \/>(no point not being able to prepare your own meals)<\/li>\n<li>Access for air circulation <br \/>(you want to be cool in summer without needing to use an air conditioner)<\/li>\n<li>A comfortable living room couch <br \/>(so that when you are into your first chapter of that long lost book you can pass out cold in comfort)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, if you find a cottage that looks like all the photos in the gallery, you have found heaven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cottage life at a cottage where you likely will never stay The term &#8220;cottage&#8221; in Canada is sometimes interchanged with cabin. Chalet is frequently used, especially near ski hills. All these terms evoke in our minds a place away from the constant commotion of the city. In the past few years, some of the monster homes have been built that have been given the appellation cottage. Perhaps &#8220;summer place&#8221; would be more appropriate. However, no matter what name you use for cottage, I&#8217;ve always associated the term with Prince Edward County, which is in Eastern Ontario about 2 hours from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[303],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelinontario.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelinontario.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelinontario.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelinontario.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelinontario.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelinontario.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1269,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelinontario.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/1269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelinontario.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelinontario.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelinontario.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}