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To msadventure: Hi Dee!	ElSato	::	2005-06-28 10:26
Thanks for your critique, especially regarding the note since I generally spend a fair bit of time on those and it's nice to know they're appreciated. Be glad you're not running a marathon here right now! 92 degrees (Fahrenheit) and muggy. I hope you do get a chance to do some sightseeing while you're here. As in any city the standard landmarks are okay, but this is a very varied place, so there's a lot to see. Personal favourites: (1) Queen Street: on which this picture was taken. It's long and has several interesting portions, mainly (a) the Beaches (east end) -- a bit touristy, but fun, (b) the Eaton Centre -- our major mall (which you can see from an odd angle in my picture "Prayer for a Mall" (c) funky west end from University Avenue west to about Dufferin) -- home of cool fasion outlets, street art, more small art galleries than you can count, at least one jazz club, a great bookstore (Pages), and a lot of other things (a glimpse is visible in my "B&W in Colour"). (2) Chinatown: there are actually three in Toronto, but the oldest and my favourite centres at the corner of Dundas Street and Spadina Avenue. (If you happen to be doing the Queen Street west tour, mentioned above, you will actually cross the bottom of Chinatown at Queen and Spadina, so you can just turn north there if you want.) I have several pictures from this area posted which are pretty readily identifiable so I won't name them all, but "The Pharmacist" has the most extensive notes on Toronto's Chinatowns. (3) Kensington Market: a hodge-podge of shops and cafes just west of Chinatown. Everything from Caribbean good luck candles to get love or money or get back at your enemies, to vegetarian food, to jewellery and a LOT of vintage clothing, great cheese shops, at least one used CD/record store, vintage furniture (circa 50s and 60s), health food stores, guys playing blues guitar on the street, reggae or African drumming emitting from various stores, incense, a Japanese food and gift shop, etc. etc. etc. A wonderful, fertile, random kind of mix. (4) The Annex: mostly a residential area, near the University of Toronto and therefore home to many profs and students, but there is a nice strip of Bloor Street between Spadina and Bathurst that has, I swear, no less than five sushi restaurants on that one block. If you continue west you enter a Korean area, which is less posh but is quite nice and has great food. There are many other spots for different tastes (Yorkville for the higher-end fashion, cafes, and crafts; Greektown for the food and atmosphere [there are more Greeks in Toronto than in any city in the world except Athens, and that includes all the other cities in Greece!]; Little Italy; the theatre district, etc.) but these are some I'd recommend and they're all faily close to one another. Lee			CanadaCanada Modern Ruins ElSato (824)
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To msadventure: Hi Dee!	ElSato (824)	::	2005-06-28 10:26
:Re: To msadventure: Hi Dee!	msadventure (632)	::	2005-06-28 19:17
::Re: To msadventure: Hi Dee!	ElSato (824)	::	2005-06-28 20:48

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