Blogs from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, North America - page 21

Toronto is quite the diverse city! The scene changes around every street corner. After a 15 hour bus journey we arrive at our host’s flat which is colourful and quirky. Sean is really friendly and offered us breakfast and made us feel right at home. He gave us loads of ideas for things to do on our first day which we ended up doing! We headed down to Kensington Market which was very bohemian with one of a kind shops. After a browse we sat in a bar and enjoyed a beer and a cider for Annie :) You can take the girl out of the valley! Sean suggested we visit the Distillery District which used to produce whisky but is now a square full of art galleries, vintage shops and bistros all built in the ... read more

First and foremost, Toronto seems very cool, aside from the aggressive homeless persons, and incredibly dangerous cab drivers. But let me digress for a moment. I'm travelling here with a friend who you used to be a hoot to travel with. Up for anything, and what provincialism he had was acceptable. That was 20 years ago. He has turned into an 80 year old woman. Nothing but complaints about his health, which is poor. The nearly 300 hundred pounds he's carrying around (from the svelte 140 he weighed 20 years ago) is perhaps a contributing factor. The 2000+ calories in candy he's eaten today in addition to an over abundance of all food consumed may be suspect? Don't get me started about his driving. I'm sorry, fifteen minutes of bathroom breaks each and every hour he's ... read more

Finding cheap flights to Canada is a bit like trying to find a bus that goes to the moon. And that’s not the only reason I’ve never visited before: I heard they sold their MILK IN BAGS. Good enough reason to never go anywhere ever again. Due South had painted a nation terrorised by men fighting bears, and the Québécois exchange students we had at school were always full of 14-inches-of-snow-in-summer stories, and casual mentions of ‘that time a moose broke into the kitchen and ate mom.’ Canada just didn’t sound like my kind of scene. Especially as I have the climate preferences of a lizard, and if anyone’s going to get violated by a Sasquatch? It’s probably ME. But it’s hard to remain unexcited about the land that burned down the White House (1814, bitches!), ... read more

Hi everyone! I arrived in Toronto a few days ago after a short flight from Montreal. I had a brilliant time there and I've also enjoyed my stay in Toronto (although I still prefer Vancouver!). Tomorrow I'm off to Niagara where I'll spend two nights before heading back to New York City to meet my mum! It's looking as though I won't have the time or resources to upload any more photos of my trip until I get home, so I'm afraid I've left you hanging at the Grand Canyon for now. Please keep checking this page for updates as I'll finish uploading the photos once I get home and you'll be able to see the final leg of my trip! It'll be much easier for me to do it from home, I should have all ... read more

Saturday morning, Sinclaire was picked up by Auntie M.E. and Angela to go on an adventure - camping overnight at Sleeping Giant Provincial Park. With a truck full of gear, snacks, scooter and two canoes, they were on their way. We got ready to go and watched the penulitmate day of the Tour de France. After getting a ride to airport with Rick, we met Colleen who was picking up Kari who was delayed a day thanks to mechanical problems on two aircraft. In Toronto airport we stopped for dinner before the flight. A Boy Scout troop kept checking out the soccer game on the television in the restaurant. They were obviously from Scotland as their uniforms included kilts. The flight to Charles de Gaulles airport was uneventful. I wanted to take a nap, but the ... read more