Around Toronto
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Inside Union Station
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Fairmont from ground level
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Skywalk to the CN Tower (in the background of this shot)
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View of Fairmont from the CN Tower
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View of Toronto Island Airport from the CN Tower - it's not often planes are flying below you
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Scuplture Garden entrance
We managed to catch most of the tourist locations we wanted during our stay here. CN Tower (obviously), but also the Art Gallery Ontario, Royal Ontario Museum, and the
Museum of Inuit Art (recommended). I particularly enjoyed a walk through the historical distillery area, then on to St Lawerences market. There is plenty we missed, but we can always return.
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Amazing Inuit art
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Art Gallery Ontario
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Me outside Royal Ontario Museum (I try to make one appearance in my TRs)
One odd point of interest is
Honest Eds store on Bloor St. It sells a load of utter crap, but the Honest Jo also owned a number of Toronto threatres, and the inside of his store is a tribute to the shows and acts he has entertained over the years. Floor to ceiling signed head-shot photos and show advertising posters fill large parts of this otherwise uninteresting shop.
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Outside Honest Eds
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Inside Honest Eds
About a block east from there is a bar with a roof terrace looking out across Toronto - we found it totally by accident but had a lovely hour or so there enjoying the view.
Food throughout the trip was great - I particularly enjoyed a surf-and-turf in a steakhouse a block from the Fairmont, and the quality and selection of the food to be found in Chinatown. The people of Toronto were friendly and welcoming without exception. As our time in Toronto drew to a close we agreed it was somewhere we would like to return to, and could genuinely understand why people from the UK move there.
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Steakhouse surf and turf for me, while Mrs Malkie enjoys a salmon salad
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Far too much chinese food for two people
Next steps were to collect a car from Avis, with a pick-up point essentially next door to the Fairmont.