Picton in Prince Edward County where John and Jill persuaded us to fly to on Sunday is worth a visit, one of seven townships established in the 18th-19th century in this Loyalist part of North America, three of them named after King George III's daughters (Ameliasburgh, Sophiesburgh, Marysburgh). Picton itself was named in honour of General Sir Thomas Picton who had just been killed in the Battle of Waterloo.
Today it has a neat little marina for the boating fraternity; we lunched down there at the Funky Carp and coveted the tug called Rosebud (shades of Citizen Kane!) moored by the landing stage. 
Picton also has an often deserted airport, overrun with wild flowers, that used to be a training camp for the air force in World War II. There's a spooky air about the abandoned huts and watchtowers reminiscent of The Great Escape and such. In fact I think some war movies have been filmed there (not that one).
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