Blogs from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, North America - page 30

Geo: 43.6485, -79.3854 Were you wondering what happened to us? We left Quebec on Tuesday morning and drove in the rain to Cornwall. We got up on Wednesday morning and drove in the rain again to downtown Toronto. We are staying in the financial district in downtown Toronto. On Wednesday morning we got up and headed out on the subway to Casa Loma. It is a restored castle on a hill overlooking Toronto. It was built in the 1920's by a banker. The first estimate to build was $250,000. At $3.5 million it was still not done. It had 98 rooms and a 5 acre garden. The owner fell on hard times and had to abandon it. We then went to see the Spadina Museum. It is a house that was lived in by the same ... read more

Arrived at the airport knowing that my bag is too heavy, but I will try and talk to the person on the check in counter and explain the situation, hopefully avoiding the excess baggage charge. Actually arrived early, check in wasn't due to start til 7.30, and it was 6.45 now. Still, I saw the line up for Air Transat, so joined it, thinking I can get ahead of the rush. After 10 minutes queuing, I thought that I might actually be lining up at the wrong check in desk. Who checks in to a flight 4.5 hours early? Why was I here so early!? There were at least 40 people ahead of me, and the same amount behind, I had gone too far to leave the line up. I didn't want to ask anyone which ... read more

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At Last we're on our travels again. This time we're ambitious enough to take on a massive country over the next two weeks or so. Luckily, we're on a conducted tour so we don't have to struggle on our own everywhere. But we will be let loose at least once every day, so plenty of scope for disaster! Somehow flights westward are easier than eastwards. So after a fairly comfortable journey with Air Canada (eg plenty of food, drink and legroom) we arrived in Toronto to lovely sunny weather much like we had left back home. (We took the precaution of drinking plenty of water en route as well.) The city looked vast - with a forest of skyscrapers in the centre. Most of the skyscapers seemed to be owned by banks and finance companies. (Obviously, ... read more

My conclusion for the day : Toronto is a very pedestrian friendly city. I basically got to all corners of central Toronto on foot today and would have racked up many kilometres. I am glad I am traveling solo as I don't think many people I know could've kept up with me today. Started off early this morning and went straight down to St Lawrence Markets which is a fresh produce market. As it was Saturday morning, they also had the farmer's market across the road. This was actually indoors and had quite a few decent stalls. However, I was mightily impressed with St Lawrence and would definitely visit here whenever I wanted to cook anything. The quality of meats, vegetables and seafood was spectacular and the prices were good too. We are so deprived in ... read more