We started the day with a morning tour of Toronto, visiting the different districts, business, entertainment, Chinatown ( a bit dumpy), old town, rainbow(gay), boutique and downtown shopping . All the areas are fairly well blocked and have the classification of the district written above the street name.
Unfortunately most of the old homes / buildings in the central district, have been pulled down and replaced by new buildings and sky scrapers.
We visited the old and new city hall, the Parliament building, Toronto harbour. The new city hall was designed in the 1950's and is two eyelids looking down on an eyeball- see photo below. The eyelids symbolise the council officials / management looking down on / caring for the residents of Toronto.
We then had a harbour cruise, with a highly amusing captain, and cruised around an island . The waterfront was quite spectacular from the boat.
I then went up the famous CN Tower ( Canada's national tower) , 114 stories or 553 meters high. The lift had a small glass floor, which was ok looking down, but going up was a bit scary! It was of course a fabulous view from the top, and I enjoyed the experience- alone- Greg chose not to go up.
The afternoon was spent walking around the town.
We walked up Yonge st, which is the central street in Toronto , it is the longest street in the world. With lots of stops , shopping and coffees we enjoyed a relaxed afternoon by ourselves..
There has been some shooting in our area over the last 2 days, and a man killed in the Eaton Centre- large shopping mall- so there are lots of police around.
Toronto has a small underground shopping centre with 1100 stores and cafes accessed by the train system.
Tonight is a quite night , eating out at the food supermarket , and an early night ready for Niagra falls tomorrow
Bye , Leanne and Greg
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Location:Toronto
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