My 25th Birthday!!!!!! Had a really lovely day today. Before setting off out Amy gave me two gifts and a card which I really wasn't expecting at all and it felt really special as I know that we'e both on a budget, so it really meant alot. Amy had bought me a beautiful badge of a maple leaf - which I have started to collect badges - and also a gorgeous wooden bookmark with the Inukshuk symbol on - I had picked one of these up so many times, but never actually bou...

Visited the Textile museum today and managed to get in for a student rate so we paid $6 instead of $14! Was a little annoyed that we'd handed our money over and then we were told that the third floor was closed due to the fact that a new exhibition was being installed. As we started walking around my first thoughts were that there didn't seem to be much to see....and I was right. I wouldn't have paid to enter the gallery if it was back home. I found a few things...

We headed to the Casa Loma building today and stumbled across more shops, resaurants, museums and galleries. I love just walking around exploring and finding new things! We had no idea what the Casa Loma was about, but the architect looked stunning in leaflets/guide books, so we were walking into it blind so to speak. I'm so glad that we took a visit, as it turns out that it was purposely built for a house - based upon the idea of a castle ontop of a hill by a w...

After having a well deserved sleep we ventured into Toronto city centre on foot, which wasn't far from the hostel at all. Our location of accommodation is great; we have a small shopping centre directly opposite the hostel and the city centre itself is about a fifteen/twenty minute walk. I wasn't as impressed as I thought I first would be with Toronto city; I expected huge high rise buildings, but there's not mant I'd call sky scrapers and the outskirts of town s...

Well, we've made it to Toronto! My God, what an awful journey; I can't describe just how long it was just sitting there doing nothing! I couldn't read nor write as I'd start to feel travel sick, I had to limit my time with my I-pod due to battery life, we were both constantly on edge with the people getting on the coach and I'd get bored after a while playing games. To make it worse, everyone we had spoken to previously about the journey from West to East had sai...