Maple Canadian Delights!

Toronto, Canada, was an interesting experience for us both as it was nothing at all like what we had expected. The weather was intensely cold (THAT we had expected!)

but the long walk to our hostel took us through a fairly run down part of town, passing XXX shop after strip club and at first glance at the street our hostel was on I was ready to turn & run! On closer inspection we found we were in a very large double room and with a very nice hostel owner which improved our first impression. After settling in & turning the room upside down with our masses of bags and belongings, we set off to inspect the town, coming across loads of jet black squirrels along the way which neither of us had ever seen before - SO cute!

We spent a bit of time window shopping and eskimo Sup found me a very nice £3 hoody to add to the 4 layers of clothes under my coat as the cold was unbearable (as was my whining!) In fact I didn't part with my leg warmers, tights, jeans, hat, gloves, scarf, coat & 5 layers of clothes until Miami...it felt very strange indeed, expecially as I think we would all agree that is so the opposite of my usual choice of clothing!! All whinging aside, it was really lovely to spend time in the snow, especially so close to Christmas as it really set the scene.

We then found a brilliant cafe called Tim Horton's and we ate the most amazing Canadian maple frosted icing donuts with vanilla cream filling.They were seriously the best donuts you could imagine and I was hooked!!

The next day took us further into Toronto town and we spent the whole day sightseeing, stopping of course for another of Tim's finest. One of Sup's new favourite things to do by now was to visit food courts and look around, sneaking lots of samples of yummy food, so we had a great time in Toronto's St Lawrence market causing trouble. We also saw some wicked street art and stopped to take some snaps, and found a 2nd hand camera store that was maybe pushing it a bit far....!

We covered a couple of lovely decorated malls and department stores such as Sears in the more upmarket part of town, and then headed to the CN tower to see what all the fuss was about...

As I had spent all our money on donuts, we didn't climb the tower, but took lots of photos of the impressive building and then moved on to the harbour to admire the boats.

With our Toronto experience complete, and having had a bit of a rest after the hectic last 3 US states, we were ready and excited to move on to the next stop - the magical Niagara Falls!

written by

SupandNic on January 4, 2010 from Toronto, Canada

from the travel blog: Sup and Nic's World Tour!

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