Abbey's Bakehouse + Power Yoga

 When we are up North in Muskoka, our vacation will not be complete without a visit at our favourite bakeshop, popularly known as Abbey's Bakehouse, located in Minett, along Lake Rosseau. They make the best ever butter tarts and butter tarts with bacon, muffins made with Muskoka blueberries, banana chocolate muffin, cookies, scones and brownies. Besides, the baked goodies, their menu has expanded to include their quiche, breakfast and lunch sandwiches made with own freshly baked focaccia bread. They also make their own gelato and pies. But first of all, try the one of a kind power yoga by the lake for some enlightenment and stretching. Definitely a Muskoka moment when one can do power yoga and then sweeten the day with a visit at Abbey's Bakehouse. 

 

 

 

 

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Summer By The Lake

Spending summer in Muskoka is my favourite happy place. I just love being here with the fresh, clean air, clear fresh water on the lakes, delicious food plus their Muskoka Brewery beers. Being in Muskoka is just so peaceful, pure and shows the true beauty of Canada. We stayed in a cottage at the Clevelands House Resort located in Minett, Muskoka, 2 hours north of Toronto. The resort is located in the Lake Rousseau which is one of the 3 Muskoka Lakes. This area is known as the millionaires row as there are many multi-million cottages around this lake. I also love that they were able to preserve all the trees in this region despite building their mega cottages preserving too their privacy.  The resort offers many summer activities like water park on the lake, Ski shows on Monday nights after dinner, there are golf, tennis, badminton courts, beach volleyball, lawn games and many water sports like learning to ski, kayaking, canoeing and even the cool and amazing fly board right on the lake. We also experienced the lovely and peaceful Muskoka sunsets. I love this place very much and I am very lucky indeed to spend my summers here, building memories with my family. 

 

 

 

 

Kayaking and water park. 

 

Seriously, we saw these seaplanes landing here one after another. It is the lifestyle of the rich, where they arrive here by Seaplane so that they can play golf and tennis in the resort. 

 

We saw a Squirrel water skiing during the Monday night Water Ski Show. 

 

 

 

 

We also saw for the first time, these cool and amazing fly boards right on the lake. 

 

 

 

 

 

Ending the day with the peaceful Muskoka sunset. 

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Muskoka Eats

 One of the joys of Canadian summer is spending time at the Cottage up north, in beautiful Muskoka, two hours away north of Toronto.  We spent a week in a cottage at the Clevelands House Resort last week and we discovered some really good places to dine up north, in Muskoka. First, the food and drinks at Rock's On The Dock, located inside the  Clevelands House Resort were really delicious and well presented. Their menu offered wonderful appetisers like calamari, Canadian classics beef brisket poutine, pulled port poutine among others. I tried their fish and chips here which was a pretty generous size and really full of fish meat and their delicious French Dip made with roast beef sandwich and dipping gravy with fries. Both were really tasty and worth the try. We also tried to go out and eat out at the Turtle Jack's in Port Carling, located between Lake Muskoka and Lake Rousseau in Port Carling. The restaurant is near shops for some shopping. We tried their Chicken fajita which was also a generous size and delicious. One of the best things to drink in Muskoka is their beers from Muskoka Brewery,  one of the best in the country. My favourite is drinking their Cream Ale Muskoka beer. Both restaurants have views of the water and eating al fresco were just both perfect for summer!  

 French Dip sandwich from Rock's On The Docks.

Chicken Fajita with Muskoka Brewery Cream Ale from Turtle Jack's. 

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