Toronto, City of Culture

We have headed to Toronto to re-group and re-plan and are in the pleasant company of Pam and Grahame Macfarlane. Our plans to purchase a van in Canada has been scuppered by various laws and insurance regulations too long to list. So we will instead be going by Train back to Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Saskatoon and Edmonton and renting cars as required and eventually renting a van for 5 weeks out of Calgary to Vancouver so all is not lost. (Families now up to date I can move on)

Toronto - CNN Tower and Skydome above, well having been here before and commented that it would be a great place to live but not too much on the tourist front my mind has changed a little as this weekend they had festivals galore including a huge art exibition by freelance artists from all over the world, The World Cup final in all its splendor - Zizou bowing out of the game graciously by kissing his fellow competitor Materazzi Liverpool style, and of course in true gangsta fashion a Hip Hop dance event where 'crews' (Groups) 'battle' (basically Breakdance) against each other for respect or props. Some lame crews got served bad, some could barely walk they were served so bad after doing fierce battle for massive props. (I'm so down with the kids).