The Formula 1 circus comes to Montreal Ever since we made the decision to come to Canada it was my burning desire go to the Grand Prix in Montreal. Formula 1 is my favourite sport, and the Canadian GP is renowned for putting on action packed and entertaining races. The city itself is also well known for getting into a festival spirit every year too. … Continue reading Grand Prix du Canada
As an animal lover who enjoys visiting the zoo in almost every place we go, I’m not quite sure why it took us so long to visit Toronto Zoo! Located in Scarborough in the east of the city, Toronto Zoo is accessible by public transit but it took us a lengthy 90 minutes to reach our destination. According to google it would have taken 25 … Continue reading A rainy day at Toronto Zoo
Spending a couple of hours at the museum dedicated to shoes One cold but sunny March day I decided to take a trip to the Bata Shoe Museum. Unsurprisingly I couldn’t convince Stewart to come too, apparently looking at shoes is boring! Although he did take an interest in my pictures afterwards so perhaps he would of enjoyed it. We ended up with tickets to the … Continue reading The Bata Shoe Museum
Whilst we were in Jasper National Park at the very beginning of our Canadian adventure, we bought a Parks Canada Discovery Pass which enables us to visit a number of, you guessed it, National Parks across the country for a year. This led us to discovering Point Pelee National Park, our destination for the Easter weekend. As you can hopefully see from the embedded video below … Continue reading Point Pelee National Park
A tourist’s perspective of Toronto through the City Sightseeing double-decker bus tour Red double-decker city sightseeing buses. We’ve all seen them. Every city worth its salt seems to have them, and Toronto is no different. I recently had the opportunity to try out Toronto’s sightseeing bus, a 2 hour loop around downtown Toronto, but which also goes as far north as Casa Loma. Each bus … Continue reading City Sightseeing Toronto bus tour
Visiting the Japanese Sakura cherry blossom trees in Toronto’s High Park Last week, on a late, sunny afternoon, we headed down to High Park to pay the blossoming cherry trees a visit. The beautiful Sakura trees were first donated to Toronto citizens by the Japanese ambassador to Canada, in appreciation of Toronto’s support for Japanese refugees after the Second World War. The most recent arrivals were trees … Continue reading High Park’s Cherry Blossom
Exploring Canada’s largest museum – the Royal Ontario Museum Having got all cultural with a visit to an art gallery the weekend before, last weekend we stepped it up and visited a museum. The museum is question is the Royal Ontario Museum, otherwise known as the ROM. The great thing is that we got in for free, having taken advantage of the Toronto Public Library’s … Continue reading The Royal Ontario Museum
Climbing the CN Tower for WWF Canada This morning we joined 6,400 others and climbed 1,776 steps to the top of the CN Tower. According to Wikipedia this means we climbed the tallest metal staircase on Earth! It took us 35 minutes to make it to the top – Stewart just scraping into 34 minutes as he left me to run up the last 2 flights. … Continue reading We made it to the top of the CN Tower!
Exploring Hogtown – pork, history, architecture and graffiti with Urban Adventures Hogtown, the Big Smoke, Toronto the Good, T.O., T-Dot and The 6 are just some of the nicknames that Toronto goes by. In a bid to learn more about the city behind these names, we embarked on Urban Adventures’ When Pigs Fry tour, lead by the excellent guide Mike, which focuses on the first of … Continue reading When Pigs Fry – a walking tour of Toronto
This weekend we did something we don’t normally do and visited an art gallery. “Why?”, you might ask. Well there was some stuff there made from Lego! Anyone who knows Stewart will know how much he loves Lego so it wasn’t hard to convince him to take a look. The art gallery in question was the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, a small gallery on … Continue reading Exploring the Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art
Brown Bear Travels 