Two days off to explore Toronto! I have been here once before, but it was long ago, sometime in the 1980s when I was in Buffalo, NY on business travel. A friend who lived in Arlington traveled to Toronto on business frequently, so I arranged to drive up from Buffalo and visit over a long weekend. That said, my memories are vague. Time to explore anew!
We are staying at the Chelsea Hotel on Gerrard Street, and I have to say it was a good choice. Granted, it is a big, and I mean BIG, tourist hotel, but we had no problems getting the bikes in, and it was well-located for the short time we would be here. Our first order of business . . . off to the rooftop for a morning view of the skyline. And then, off to breakfast at our predictably favorite breakfast restaurant from our Montréal and Ottawa days . . . Cora.
The view looking south from the rooftop of the Chelsea Hotel.
No breakfast pictures, but what I got has been seen before. Jerry and I decided to go our separate ways today . . . with me off to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and then the Royal Ontario Museum. But first, a stroll up Yonge Street.
At the intersection of Carlton and Yonge Streets and the juxtaposition of old and new.
There is a lot of construction going on in the city . . . and it revealed this 19th-century firehouse tower that once stretched above the St Charles Tavern.
. . . and stumbled onto the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. I actually had to wander up to the front door to ask and then found out it was open to the public for tours, so in I went.
