Well, I'm home from Toronto, relaxed back into the flat and tomorrow I go back to work.
The holiday was superb, the flight over went quickly (even despite my dodgy screen meaning I couldn't really watch any movies) and BA even served up meals that resembled real food! When we arrived we got a taxi to the hotel and although from the outside it looked like a hideous concrete high rise (it is...), the interior was gorgeously decorated. I can imagine it's a little OTT for some tastes, but I liked it. Once we'd settled into the room we headed downstairs for a quick walk around the block, to stretch our legs and get a little fresh air. The city was surprisingly quiet for a Sunday night. We went to the hotel restaurant for a great meal and I tried some honey beer which tasted great, I think it was called Sleemans Honey Brown (http://www.sleeman.com/en/html/beer/sl_brands/honey/index.htm). After that, we dragged ourselves, exhausted and over full, to bed.
The next morning we rose early and headed a block east to Starbucks for breakfast, it served it's purpose and we strolled off up Yonge St (pronounced young), heading west along Bloor St,. home of Toronto's designer shopping. Our eventual aim was the stunning Royal Ontario Museum, and it's 'crystal' extension. As it wasn't open we carried on to the Bata Shoe museum. The exhibits inseide were actually pretty interesting, moreso than I'd been expecting. We then headed back to the ROM and made our way round there.The museum was well laid out and had exhibits that were both thorough and diverse, at leat it did as far as we could see. At least half of the building was closed as the Crystal is still not complete internally. When we visited the gift shop I became the focus of attention for it's extremely camp manager, who followed me about explaining the significance of everything I picked up (the focus of many camp men on me became a theme throughout the holiday actually).
At this point we fancied a bite to eat and a sit down, so we thought we'd take a look at the Eaton Centre, a kind of large shopping centre with a Sears department store as part of it (It was originally an Eaton store, buit their chain went bust and was bought out by Sears, who declined to change the name of the whole complex). Here we ate, window shopped, and I picked up a pair of CDs for my good friend Ben. Late in the afternoon we returned to the hotel, tired and fancying a short nap before dinner. Our heads hit the pillow and we were out like a light, not waking until around 9pm, at which time we realised it was far too late to consider going out for food so we just rolled straight over and went to sleep for the night.
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