Sleeping Beauty

The Best Place To Have A Home In The World

My Grandfather recently told me about his previous holidays in Canada and also about a house that he used to own there . He told me all about how he first bought it and then began to describe the whole place to me. It sounded so amazing that I felt it was something I had to share.

It was a log cabin in Alberta, placed neatly on the east side of Primrose Lake. It was a big enough house with huge open rooms and a large stone fireplace. The whole place was built by hand and mainly made of high quality hard wood.An old photo that he found of the cabin showed just how good it looked.

In the summer he would take his boat out onto the lake everyday and fish for hours. You cannot understand the sound of silence he told me, it’s the most beautiful thing on earth.  We live in a world where there is always a car, or plane or person making some noise or other. But not here. Here was silent as can be. He told me of how he would lay back and stare up at the mountains and fall asleep for hours

In the winter time he would cut a hole in the ice that covered the lake and set some fishing poles up. Whilst he waited for a catch he would ice skate on a cleared patch of lake. Any fish that her caught would be made into a fish pie by my grandmother and they would both eat it in front of the fire in the evening.

It all sounded like something out of a fairytale. And that is why, after hearing my grandfathers story, I am heading out there soon on a canada fly drive holiday looking for a place of my own on that same lake. Unfortunately my grandfather’s old place is not for sale but if I can find anything even close I will be happy.

Once Upon a Dream – Sleeping Beauty (1959)