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... though.) We didn't have to wait in line for the tickets to Maid of the Mist, which was included. That was a bonus. We stopped to wander around the beautiful Niagara-on-the-Lake. And to top the day off, we went to a winery for some free wine tasting.

All in all, it was a good day.

... by featureless little towns of a few thousand people and industrial-looking farms. Thankfully the car had cruise control and I was momentarily amused by passing through Barry's Bay. We picked up some lunch from Whitney, just before reaching the park at about 11am, and ate it by the road after having a brief look at a logging museum. It was interesting to see how hard life had been for (apparently) half of all the adult men in Canada who left ...

... Castle house (Casa Loma, Castle on the hill (Spanish) Rick recalled from his previous visit (although he was getting confused about which city he had seen it in, because it really was not advertised in the brochures we had gathered about Toronto) The self guided tour of this Castle built in 1911 by an extremely rich Canadian, Sir Henry Pellat who had made a lot of money investing and building the first electric power station on Niagara falls, with an exclusive contract to ...

... Michelle wasn't disappointed when I told her I wouldn't be shopping, it was good to see her for two minutes. I wouldn't see her again for another hm...12 hours... OK, so I went on over to the madly corporatized stage. It was called something like the "Rogers Molson PlayStation Hard Rock Cafe Now Magazine stage of fantastic fun-ness", I think... There were MONSTROUS waits between showtimes, the bands took forever to set up and take down their equipment. I think it had ...

Well, Toronto is certainly different to Montreal, and the guidebooks seem to be right when they say that it aspires to be like an American city. There's quite a lot of skyscrapers here, and everything just seems a bit more "American". We're staying in the Radisson hotel on the Harbourfront, with a fantastic view of the CN Tower out of our hotel room window. You may think that we should be doing things cheaply ...

... did arrive the driver then had to check all the passengers on the bus for onward tickets and passports for the border before letting the other passengers on who had been waiting for ages. In the end it turned out that there were actually only 20 seats available so a word of warning to anyone using greyhound is that you have to get to the gate early - don't buy your ticket and assume that it means you have a guaranteed seat because it doesn't and ...

Friday, July 20, 2007 Restless and irritated, I woke up a little after four in the morning. As much as I wanted to, I just couldn't get back to sleep. Apparently my body's still in the addled by jetlag. Resigned to waking life, I ambled downstairs after an hour of fruitless tossing and turning. With a fresh glass of OJ, I sat on the porch at five am smoking and cursing my sleep-deprived brain. The ...

Humber bay park is a nice place to have a walk during the week-end. I have been there in april but I guess it is different in summer at which time people can swim in Ontari lake.

Humber bay is located in the west-south part of Toronto, after Hight park (close to Kings Mill or Jane Subway station). If you like walking you can for example start at Bloot st. west and Jane st. and walk through Etienne Brule then Kings Mill park to go in Humber bay park. It take maybe 1:30/2:00 ...

A group of high school students from Etobicoke, Ontario, came to visit a group of us PM Students (including Jolene and Lindsay) for a week, then we flew out to visit them for a week! We went to their school for a day, visited downtown Toronto (including the Royal Ontario Museum, the Hockey Hall of Fame, the CN Tower [aah the glass floor ...

... mainly Oxford and Brighton. I've spent a month in Oxford some years ago, and I absolutely loved it. I missed it so much I decided I just had to go back. And Brighton is just such a cool place (the beach! the beach!), that it warrants a day or two of exploring. I think I may throw in a day in Bath as well, just to round things off. I'm really excited about the tour, but the really great thing about travelling alone is the flexibility - so, I may decide to skip Bath and go to ...