As soon as I emerged on to English soil from the Eurotunnel, I began to dream about where my next adventure would take me. I had just spent a little four-day New Years' break in Bruges, Eindhoven and Amsterdam with Ollie and six of my good friends; Sam, Mike, Laura, Deric, Sisi and Fabio and had a wonderful time, but my problem is that as soon as one trip ends, I immediately want to embark on another. Unfortunately I have been suffering my own little financial crisis since the beginning of February and international travel has taken a bit of a backseat to food, bus fares and books, and so on and so forth. So, you can imagine my excitement when yesterday I pressed the 'Confirm Your Flights' button on the Swiss Air website and in return received two shiny e-tickets for return flights to Toronto.
As I mentioned in my previous post, the main purpose of this trip is to attend the wedding of two of my good friends however, Ollie and I also decided that as we were travelling that far, it would be silly not to take advantage of what Ontario has to offer. So I can currently be found on the red couch, surrounded by back issues of travel magazines, with a million windows open on my Macbook on travel advice and must-see landmarks, drinking copious amounts of tea. Into the small hours of this morning, we were awake discussing what we would like to see and the initial list is:
- Get to the top of the CN Tower (didn't do it last time)
- Art galleries and museums of Toronto - need some advice on which are the best to see
- Niagara (of course)
- Also possibly the Niagara Wine Tour
- Cooking course in Toronto (need to find some vegetarian-friendly Canadian specialties)
- Bruce Peninsula National Park
- Perhaps any other areas of natural beauty that are not too far out of the City
- Would also like to catch a major sporting event, again - advice needed please
Over the coming weeks I intend to find some time to research these further and post any findings here. This may also be useful for anybody planning on visiting Ontario in the future. Also, if anybody has any recommendations which I haven't covered, I would be incredibly grateful if you could post them in the comments section or e-mail them to me at gemma.gannon@googlemail.com.
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