Probably Toronto's most interesting buildings... so far for me anyway! Though to be honest the really beautiful buildings here are houses and smaller university, business and religious buildings... but those next time!
3) CN Tower
Well today, it feels like summer in Toronto, finally after two solid weeks of rain, cloud and thunder storms. I feel happy to be wearing a sun dress, sandles and sunglasses... like home I guess!
This week about finding a place to live... but nothing yet has finalised... as is life no doubt we will find the right place just at the last moment. We are still both not so secretly keen on living above the restaurant but we are not in control of when the owner/builder will get it ready and then we can't be sure if we'll like it or will be able to afford it!
In the meantime... I am excited to be going to hear Lang Lang, the amazing Chinese pianist with Herbie Hancock (who needs no introduction) next Wednesday night... playing Rhapsodie in Blue by Gershwin as part of the show... I have been looking forward to hearing/seeing Lang Lang since seeing an amazing doco on him a few years ago. This a very good part of being in Toronto!
My coffee getting better as the weeks pass and still haven't had a better one in a coffee shop here.... gone are the days of me having a no caffeine diet inpsired by Golden Door Health Retreat!
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Prices for food seem amazingly good to me... but guess you say, what about the exchange rate? For whatever it is now... click here. But still I've been amazed... I know I talked about this in week one but thought you might like some details...
- 6 ripe mangoes for $5 (not quite Bowen but flavour good)
- 10 Tahitian limes for $1 (yes Zannie, this is pretty good!)
- 1.98 lb (nearly a kilo for the young ones) lychees for $1.96
- 2 lb bananas for $1.30
- 2 large pawpaws for $5.00
- 2 lb red cherries for $3.00
- 1 shoulder pork for $2.98 (we got three meals out of that!)
- 2 fresh yellow fin fish for $4.98
Admittedly this is China Town and I'm with the best damn food shopper this side of Hawaii... but it is a pleasure and a saving which I am enjoying given I don't work these days. I also remind Peter that most of this excellent fruit is probably coming from poor South American farmers... he agrees... sad truth I guess they rather sell to us than not. This right?
Finally no trip to China Town complete without a nip into the Hong Kong Island Bakery for hot Chinese buns (yes yes my prediliction haha) which I had discovered when living in HK in 2005. Oh yummm...
Finally no trip to China Town complete without a nip into the Hong Kong Island Bakery for hot Chinese buns (yes yes my prediliction haha) which I had discovered when living in HK in 2005. Oh yummm...
Thought you... well those of you who haven't already had enough of Peter and dogs... might enjoy a small snippet from our walk this week.
