Toronto, Canada

Walking the streets of Toronto

The day after we visited Erie, PA it was raining pretty hard where we were staying near Niagara Falls, and the weather forecast was better further north, so we decided to head to Toronto, Canada. Toronto seems to be a very nice city, but I think it would have been better if we had gone on any other day besides a Sunday. A lot of the shops were closed and the streets seemed like there should have been many more people around. Of course, it is always nice not having streets that are packed full of people, so I can complain much at all. Also, the CN tower was covered by clouds so it wasn't worth a trip up, but I would have liked go up if it was a clear day, oh well.

The CN Tower with the Canadian Flag

We took a walk through an underground shopping area, which I have heard is the largest underground mall in the world, with 27km of walkway filled shops. But, as I said, many of the shops were closed. That got boring pretty quick, so we headed to Chinatown. I heard that Chinatown was pretty cool, but in my opinion does not even come close to comparing to Chinatown in San Francisco.

After quick walk through Chinatown we headed to the lake-front - Lake Ontario. There were some massive yachts cruising through the lake as well as some cute sailboats. There were also some cultural performances going on, mostly out of central Asia. We ate some great fish and chips on the waterfront (even though the service was a bit lacking, which was shocking considering all of the nice people in Canada), watched a few more dances, then started our walk back to the car.

Overall, Toronto seems like a very nice stopover city... and it is very clean compared to most large cities.