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...

So, we're 30 minutes into our 2day 4hour coach journey to Toronto from Calgary and already I have just seen a woman walking her dog - a long haired golden retriever....with a purple tail!! I was sickened to see this! What the f*%k - she should be arrested for animal cruelty! Amy is laughing at me as I'm already checking my watch! 30minutes down, 2days three and a half hours to go! Bordem has kicked in already!

Our four hour Greyhound coach journey to Calgary went well...I fell asleep throughout most of the journey as I hadn't had any decent sleep whilst being in Edmonton hostel. Parts where I was awake I thought we'd repeated the journey several times (felt like Groundhog day) as the scenery was so repeatative; just flat land with the odd distant tree! Instantly had a better feeling about Calgary. The streets weren't hussled with people and it generally was a cleaner ...