We're getting ready to leave Canada with some sadness but also gratitude. Sadness that we have to go back home to our normal lives (at least starting on Monday when we go back to work), but grateful to have been able to visit such a wonderful place. I look forward to coming back :) And we totally will. Sorry Canada, you haven't seen the last of us!

Tonight is our last night in this rather funky country, and what better way to mark the end of a cool holiday than by going to see one of your favourite bands live? Going to see Rammstein happened pretty much by chance. A few months ago I was idly browsing t'internet (as is my wont) and saw that they were doing a tour of North America and Canada. I thought "Ooh, I wonder when..?" and had a quick look, then realised they'd be in Toronto on our last ni...

It's weird to think that we only really have two more days in Canada before we have to come home again... Ho hum. It's certainly been a fun trip; we've seen amazing places, spoke to some lovely people, drank some awesome beers (we don't drink that much at home but hey, we're on our holidays) and walked a hell of a lot. We usually walk everywhere at home (what with not wanting to get tied down to the costs of running a car) but of course Newcastle is a lot smaller...

After coffee and breakfast at a Java Joe's near the hotel we went to the Royal Ontario Museum, which is one of the attractions we can access using our Toronto CityPasses. That place is huuuuuge. The front of the building (pictured above) was designed by an artist called Daniel Libeskind, and it's called The Michael Lee-Chin Crystal after a guy who made a $30 million donation to the museum. Inside they have a number of floors filled with your usual museum-ty...

If there's one thing that we'll bring back from our trip to Canadialand, it's a new-found fascination with ice hockey. We do have it back home but it's nowhere near as huge as over here. Go Canucks go! Anyway. This evening we decided to head to a bar for a little bit before tonight's game (in Vancouver we could head to a bar *for* a game, but I doubt they'd be showing it here :D) and after a bit of wandering around we came across an "irish" pub and h...