Last real day of “holiday” today even though the packing starts . The 36 hrs from hell tour starts at 6 am tomorrow with Uber to airport for first flight to Vancouver, sit around 9 hrs and hopefully catch Qantas flight home 🤞
Relaxing day then with one last Poutine the likely highlight. Yes folks that is how exciting plans are for today. Mind you we have done and seen a lot in last 3 weeks. Time then for last early morning coffee run on a cool dark morning . A tad breezy too, looks a nice day for sock drawer rearranging
Glorious morning first up and we entered the bowels of Toronto AKA The Path. Rather impressive and very useful in lousy weather I imagine . We got a coffee but shall return. Too nice above ground to hang around with GUU. (Great Underground Unwashed ) Off to market we went . Impressive array of fresh food but if not buying lose a bit of interest by Aisle 27
We have checked in with West Jet for flight tomorrow at 9 am. Dealing with that process confirms we are on a budget airline . Back home then after some last minute souvenir shopping. Refocus and then catch a couple of slow moving streetcars out to Poutine Paradise. Apparently.
Wouldn’t say the TTC is most efficient public transport system have used. When you desire a Streetcar none turn up and then 3 in a row . The old Streetcar Shim Sham and I fell for it .We finally caught first of two out to Nom Nom Nom the top rated Poutine place in Toronto as voted by one Toronto Blog. More of a Street Food Van with no wheels – you know , fixed. It was tasty enough but maybe Poutined out by now. And then it started to rain
Then waited 15 mins for a promised streetcar which never appeared so we walked home . We walked back to Toronto Sign and then entered Path which eventually brings us up right in our hotel lobby . It’s a great system . A bit of quirk along the way
Guess clothes won’t pack themselves so that may be first afternoon job. Ready to go home now methinks but will head out later for a drink and dinner.
And we did. Just as about to leave we really get the hang of PATH- what a brilliant system to connect so many areas below street level. You just come back up when needed or as with One King West and Fairmont you come up in middle of place you want. First night here CLP did some research and found out that Reign in Fairmont Royal York opened at 630 for coffee. As turns out it doesn’t – only for breakfast – but what a find . We have been every day whether for breakfast or drinks. Today we started with cocktails at Library Bar and as I prefer sat at the bar and bartender was great . He explained about the Voodoo Child cocktail and it was great especially with the Sasquatch pepper thingy that turned your tongue a tingling first. Much like my women don’t care how they look if hot and smoky. This cocktail was ✅✅
We made a booking at Reign for dinner so went for a bit of a walk around CN Tower via Path. Some more things of interest bordering on quirk worthy
Then back to Reign for another superb dinner. Yes you pay for it but the service was excellent and the food delicious. The ambience was first class as well and to round it off they had a Cab Franc. Only sad note for CLP was when our server referred to us as Mr and Mrs Ferguson and she realised she had let a golden opportunity at Niagara Falls pass yesterday 🤓 Ouch, that baguette hurts
And so the high life ends for a while but it’s been a blast . It’s the 36 hrs from Hell tour kicking off tomorrow but this is part of the deal when you travel OS. All we ask for now is flights to be relatively in time and actually take off
Farewell Canuckistan 🏒🥞🇨🇦🍁🦌🐿️
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