Toronto Revisted

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Geo: 43.7001, -79.4163

It's been five years since Hamish's last North American conference was held in Toronto, and Alan is joining him for a few days of holiday.

After a pleasant flight of under 8 hours, Alan arrived in a rather cold but bright Toronto. Cold as in 2°C. Since our last visit Toronto has built a rail link from the airport to Downtown and the transfer was easy, albeit took a bit of time.

18th March: Woke up quite early because of the jet-lag. Put it this way, I heard the City Hall clock chimed 4! We had Canadian breakfast at Tim Hortons - grilled bagel with bacon and egg, hash brown and coffee. We like to eat local as you know. Hamish just had a bagel with cream cheese. It did the job of filling our bellies.

The weather has turned to cold and snowy, but not as cold as last week. When Hamish arrived, it was -7°C and with the wind-chill, it felt like -17°C! Today it was a tropical 1°C. In this weather, the city is not so inviting, but then they have the underground walkways connecting shops and buildings and we didn't have to go outside much.

After a dim sum lunch with friends, Hamish had to work and Alan walked (outside in the sleet) to St Lawrence Market. We enjoyed our visit 5 years ago and it didn't disappoint this time. It was great to see the market in full swing with locals doing their grocery shopping, and that it isn't just for the tourists.

Had dinner in the restaurant atop the CN Tower to celebrate a friend's birthday. Alas, the clouds closed in and all we saw was pea soup. Never mind, the food was lovely (see photos).

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Photos

Airline food
A nice Asian Prawn Salad.

Afternoon tea at 38000 ft.
Nice but rather a lot of sugar.

St Lawrence Market
The market

Wintry weather
Outside the Market

Up in the clouds
Not much of a view from up there, alas.

Starter
Steak tartar

Main Course
Pork loin. Very generous portions

Pudding
Chocolate Tower. Mine kept upright.

Altogether now...
and say cheese.

City Lights
What we looked out onto from the room.

Comments

[Carol Grimshaw]

Hey luvlies, looks fab, please take notes of what we should c and do in July xx

[Lynda]

Good start on the food stakes. Keep it up guys.

[Tamm?? Greeves]

Great to see you all, food looks amazing! (Slightly jealous as I'm tucking into a bowl of wheetabix...Yum!). Looking forward to the nxt installment. T

[Lynda]

That looks better than any airline I've ever had. Which airline was it???

[Lynda]

Quit with all that boasting

[tim Phil kornel]

Glad you are having a good time. Hope weather has improved when we visit Toronto in August love Tim Phil Kornel