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October 2012

Tuesday in the GTA

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It was a very soggy Tuesday in Toronto and I was extra damp after walking four blocks to a breakfast place I’d noticed last night only to find that it didn’t open until 11:00. Apparently it’s more of a bar and only serves hangover breakfasts.

Monday:

  • Breakfast in Kensington Market.
  • Lots of walking and subwaying (is that a verb?) mostly downtown, Danforth Village, and the University of Toronto area.
  • Lunch at the Coach House on Yonge Street, a quite wonderful old diner in a stretch of old low-rise commercial buildings that’s probably doomed.
  • More books, and I accidentally just happened upon he final day of the University of Toronto’s annual Friends of the Library book sale. Just walked on campus, saw a sign, and there it was. Love when that happens.
  • Dinner at Falafel Queen, followed by a nighttime drive around the city.

Today:

  • Soggy trek to an uneventful breakfast.
  • Back to the hotel to do some work that couldn’t wait till after vacation.
  • Lurked around The Beach and had lunch at a diner on Queen Street East that provided a great salad and a very terse (OK…rude) waitress.
  • Revisited that bookstore on Spadina and scored some amazing stuff, including a 1959 annual report from Loblaws.
  • Dinner with a friend and former coworker from SF who’s back in his native Toronto now.

Off to Montreal tomorrow.