I've been very busy with summer school and catching up on North American tv, so I haven't been working on my pictures or updating my European blog posts. Aged P is impatient. However, summer school finishes next week, so I will try to get my Provence and Paris museum week pix up Real Soon, with the rest to follow In The Near Future.
Meanwhile, I've been casting about for something to do with the rest of the summer. With my unexpectedly depleted bank account, due to the fact that I apparently had a leetle too much fun in Paris, and frankly because I'm not really fond of the travelling part of travel, any "foreign" adventuring this summer must be somewhat curtailed. I've decided, though, that I will still go visit a great city, and it won't cost me a dime.
I'm going to play tourist in Toronto.
I'm ecstatic that I won't have pack or unpack or lug around a heavy suitcase. On the downside, the maid service will be lousy.
I'm going to visit some of the areas I've only seen in passing, act thoroughly touristy by taking pictures and poking into shops and so forth and following a guidebook. This plan has received an unexpected boost; in researching Toronto walking tours, I came across Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto and Eye Weekly was having a contest to win a copy of the book and 3 spots on a 10-person guided tour with the author, Shawn Micallef, senior editor at Spacing magazine. And I won. Yay me!
You should do one of those Hop On Hop Off bus tours! I hear they're great and you learn a lot about Toronto!
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