This morning we woke up and decided to do the Toronto walk as outlined in the trusty Lonely Planet guide for Canada. After checking out some items on the list which left us underwhelmed such as the sculpted wall to a basketball stadium and the “magnificent” frescoe in the Fairmont Hotel. The PATH system is a bewdy with an underground network of tunnels to the point that people never have to walk on the footpaths in winter.
We walked into the Traditional Inuit Art museum. It held gems such as seal heads and something we’re not quite sure about but I thought it looked remarkably like the stingray that took Steve Irwin out. Very unattractive art, well to us anyway!!
We went to Nathan Phillips Square, which in summer is a lovely lake in the middle of the city. It was difficult to believe with the temperature being 28 at the end of summer that the lake freezes over in winter and becomes and ice skating rink. We were told the season changes quickly after a few blisteringly cold days. 
We walked past the beautiful old stone building, Trinity College, of Toronto University where we helped ourselves to look through all of the rooms including the dining room that looked like something off a Harry Potter film set. The university and gardens were stunning and we saw our favourite animal at the moment, the squirrel (we may be beginning to sound like we have a bit of a fetish here). There was only one here, but when we left the university on the way out we saw stacks of them and had fun with them and watching one in particular take it a pigeon it had just had enough of. 
On the way home we walked through the aptly named Baldwin Village on Baldwin Street and stopped off for possibly the world’s largest mango daiquiri and beer for Dan which seems to be going down much easier now! The street was packed with heaps of restaurants and café’s which service mainly the uni students. 
After quite a few km’s under our belt we headed back to the hotel and Dan took a dip in the roof top pool and sunned himself afterwards. With the sun starting to set over the city we headed up to CN (Canadian National) Tower which is the largest building in the world at 553m. The lift ride up was pretty awesome with the glass frontage. We got up to the top and watched the sun set over the city with the Tower changing colour and the city lights emerging over Toronto. There was also a glass floor which you walked over and looked down over the city. A little on the scary side when you first walk over it (waiting for the thing to smash and fall to your death). The tower is considered one of the seven modern man made wonders of the world.
We walked into the Traditional Inuit Art museum. It held gems such as seal heads and something we’re not quite sure about but I thought it looked remarkably like the stingray that took Steve Irwin out. Very unattractive art, well to us anyway!!
We went to Nathan Phillips Square, which in summer is a lovely lake in the middle of the city. It was difficult to believe with the temperature being 28 at the end of summer that the lake freezes over in winter and becomes and ice skating rink. We were told the season changes quickly after a few blisteringly cold days. We walked past the beautiful old stone building, Trinity College, of Toronto University where we helped ourselves to look through all of the rooms including the dining room that looked like something off a Harry Potter film set. The university and gardens were stunning and we saw our favourite animal at the moment, the squirrel (we may be beginning to sound like we have a bit of a fetish here). There was only one here, but when we left the university on the way out we saw stacks of them and had fun with them and watching one in particular take it a pigeon it had just had enough of. On the way home we walked through the aptly named Baldwin Village on Baldwin Street and stopped off for possibly the world’s largest mango daiquiri and beer for Dan which seems to be going down much easier now! The street was packed with heaps of restaurants and café’s which service mainly the uni students. After quite a few km’s under our belt we headed back to the hotel and Dan took a dip in the roof top pool and sunned himself afterwards. With the sun starting to set over the city we headed up to CN (Canadian National) Tower which is the largest building in the world at 553m. The lift ride up was pretty awesome with the glass frontage. We got up to the top and watched the sun set over the city with the Tower changing colour and the city lights emerging over Toronto. There was also a glass floor which you walked over and looked down over the city. A little on the scary side when you first walk over it (waiting for the thing to smash and fall to your death). The tower is considered one of the seven modern man made wonders of the world.
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