10 times to Canada and no bears. Apparently they mainly live at landfills but spend the day like proper bears looking for bees nests deep in the woods when I get there.Mark and Shiva have a fabulous apartment in Toronto overlooking the CN Tower (Someone said its like Toronto giving the finger to the rest of Canada). They are great hosts and we are enjoying living like Yuppies , even if we look like country cousins amongst the beautiful people.
We have mixed feelings about Toronto - very safe, no graffiti, great 
restaurants, micro breweries, islands, beaches, modern and historical districts and loads of things to do. Great place to live but as visitor it hasn't got the edgyness that makes places like London or Barcelona so exciting
Spent a wonderful few days at a cottage with friends of Marks. Great company and hosts and the setting, on a beautiful lake, was idyllic. Swimming every day. trips in the speedboat, canoeing, water skiing, great food, great wine, strange cocktails and a quirky dog - what more could you want.
10 reasons to like/dislike Canada based on extensive research on one of the worlds biggest countries carried out over two weeks mainly in Toronto.
- Friendly tolerant people/tolerating having to buy your bottle of wine from the Government.
- Space and beauty/taking forever to get somewhere different.
- Not being America/adopting too much American culture.
- Great food/waiters who act as if yours is the most brilliant menu choice in gourmet history
- Good restaurants/waiters who take your plate away because you stopped eating for more than 10 seconds
- Attentive service in restaurants/attentive service in restaurants (and having to tip 15%)
- Baseball/they should go one step further and play cricket
- Jumping pedestrian stop signs and having everyone follow you into the oncoming traffic/pedestrian stop signs
- The Toronto Beer Festival and Steam Whistle beer/difficulty in getting micro brews (especially Steam Whistle) in restaurants and bars
- Attempting to save energy by getting people to switch lights off/making every building so cold that you have to carry a coat to wear indoors
Following photos show the first in our collection of "Beds of the Americas" and Mark and Shiva irresponsibly giving drink to a homeless person
Next stop New York
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