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Travel Blogs from Toronto, Canada
Ends and Beginnings
... left Australia about a week ago, spent a week in California (attending a wedding and adjusting to the time difference), and reached Toronto on the evening of June 25th. I had originally planned to stay in Australia for four months. Obviously, this was ...
Toronto
... ; Sudbury mines nickel amongst other minerals and is quite different geology to the Shield. Arrived in Toronto after midnight - over 4 hours late and Via Canada offer 50% off the next journey as compensation - where will we go? The Fairmont ...
Day 12 the Niagara Conspiracy
... Today's famous Canadian is Ed Mirvish. Ed is famous for Honest Ed's, the original 2 dollar shop dating from the 1920's. A toronto institution. We visited in the morning to stock up on Rubbermaid, but came away wondering about whether we needed a wooden ...
At the Airport
... this blog. This is our first time flying through Terminal 1. It's quite nice.. very open and airy... A definate upgrade from Toronto's older terminals. Due to the delay we were offered $10 each for a meal in the food court. I hope ...
Still ticking over
... and I doubt I'll pass the evaluation, but there's two days left yet. It's been a great way to meet all the miserable people that Canada has so far managed to hide from the world, in either case. Also, Chris tells me that there's a royal going to Newcastle ...
Time to get very cold
Arrived at Toronto in freezing cold of -30 with only a T-Shirt. The weather was so bad that the driver would not guaruntee to be able to get me to Paul's house at the army base in Borden. After driving around at arounf 20 miles an hour, we eventually ...
time to pack
having nightmares about getting to the airport with one suitcase that turns out to be empty. think I'd better start packing so I remember everything and have time to take out items that make my suitcases too heavy. Still don't have my ...
Toronto...... the City that Works
Cold weather is definitely slowing me down here.... I can't stay long enough outside because of the wind blowing at 0 to -2 degrees centigrade. My face feels like being sprayed with freezing water. Hence, what would you expect, less opportunity to taske ...
Nil Desperandum
... off my uniform on Thursday, picture to follow David!) but I've managed to be quite conservative with money now. Also, I've found Toronto's equivilant of Ramblers which leave every weekend and take hikes for just the cost of the coach there and back - next ...
Hello Toronto!
... the subway line. It's cheaper to buy a metro token at the airport, rather than using coins. I was really impressed with Toronto's subway system. It's clean and not smelly (like New York's subway), for one thing, and also very quiet. There were many ...
Top in Toronto
This e-mail is coming from Toronto from a crazy hostel in the middle of the busy town......and it has a bar with a great atmosphere (sorry bars/booze are always in my e-mails, what do you expect from me)!!! Since my last e-mail from Montreal I ...
Left Toronto
Everyone safely abord our Air Canada flight to Barbados. Anxiously waiting to see how the kids do with five hours of ...
Pictures for the Priest Family
For any non-Priest family member reading I am afraid that this stage will not be of great interest as during our time in Toronto we spent our time catching up with our Toon side of the family not sightseeing. The attached pictures are really for our ...
Tour of Niagara Falls (The Ness and Jess way)
... . But liked walking through it as it almost made us feel uneasy... Pedram (Ness’ housemate) met us for dinner in Toronto to a gorgeous yummy Italian Grazies (I definitely ate too much!). I’ve got use to feeling the subway beneath us when ...
This way, you lucky people!
... Uiterst smerig, ja, en de eigenaar verklaarde het met puberaal gedrag. Ik geloof dat ik dit huisdier liever niet ontmoet. Toronto is in een opzicht een slechte stad voor mij; de straten zijn vol van goedkope tweedehands boekenwinkels. De kunstboeken ...
Only two full days to go before take-off to Peru.
... blessings. The entire staff of seventy some showed up to offer their good wishes as well as the Brothers from Toronto and Hamilton. The Hamilton contingent was led by none other than Brother Justin, the Superior General of their Religious ...
Safe(r) Crime and Peaceful Streets
This is a top pick! ... I love my home country. Canada to me in one word: PEACEFUL. Even the crime seems not so violent. Infact, stats show that Canada has one of the lowest crime rates in the world. A recent Mercer survey revealed that all of the Canadian cities covered by the ...
Toronto day 3
... full of, at the time of construction, modern conveniences such as electric lighting and the first lift in any house in Canada, known as 'Otis 1' Henry was greatly involved in electrical innovation and invention, he played a major role in the first hydro ...
Home Before We Left
And so our Far East adventure comes to an end. We want to thank our parents, families and loved ones for coming with us through this blog, and for your affection and support. Domo arigato gozaimashita. Watch this blog for the next few weeks. As many of ...
It takes NYC to make a country girl outta me
We arrived safely home ( well their home at least) Wednesday morning at 5am due to a 3+hour delay on the I-80. There was a major accident with multiple fatalities so we were stranded on the interstate for hours and hours without food ( unless you ...
Last night in Canada
Well the fun is beginning. the first leg of my journey takes me to Toronto where I am spending the night with my brother Keith and sister in law Monique. I got in to find out that the Gardiner was shut down for maintenance which meant the trip downtown ...
Somewhere over the Atlantic
... , my friends helped". Etc.) The flight left on time, amazingly. It took 10 hours and 45 minutes to travel from Toronto to Israel. On the way, nobody slept. People chatted, got to know each other, played card games, flirted with ...
Still Cold In Toronto
... about it ! i have some nice plans for the next few days, tonight i will be going to the maddison, a bar in downtown Toronto, with Mike, Rob and hopefully Dave, the Dude i met in australia who lives here. so should be a good night. Friday evening i ...
Home
Alas, this is my last blog entry for our trip and it saddens me. The blog has come to be a wonderful opportunity to share our experiences and feelings with you, and concurrently, to provide a trip journal for ourselves for the days when our minds will ...
mexico?
... used to the hostel life, which at the moment is consisting of mainly drinking and wandering around the city finding random things to do. Toronto is good fun but i think i've seen enough now. I managed to sort out the VISA issue and it turned out ...
Terrific Toronto
... in the concrete jungle of Toronto. [Don't get me wrong, you know I love trees, however a change in scenery is always welcome]. Toronto is big, big and bigger than you can imagine. Our necks are cricked from gazing up to the many sky-scrapers here! Rob ...
The train!
OK, let's just move on! Otherwise you guys will loose interest!! We left Montreal on a train to Toronto at 4.30 in the afternoon. Three of us looking forward to the mother of all trips as maria likes to call it. And I was extremely looking forward to this ...
Here we are!
...Person Terminal 3. After almost a year of planning and many more of dreaming, we are here. Brian keeps calling this a trip of a lifetime, but I'm determined to say it is 'the first trip of our lifetime' instead. Unwilling to resign ...
Home Again!
I'm home now! Okay, it's actually taken me until July 20 to rest and settle my thoughts. This was an amazing trip. I got to spend two whole weeks with my adult daughters--serious mother-daughter bonding time and sister-sister bonding ...