Today is International Ataxia awareness day, we didn't know what Ataxia was so we looked it up and now know what it is. Job done.
We started the day with an all you can eat buffet breakfast and promptly doubled our waistline, let's just say that it wasn't the most healthy breakfast. At one point Mark made a bacon sandwich by substituting the bread out for more bacon.
With breakie out of the way we started heading north to Toronto which is just the other side of a lake, however that lake is larger than the English Channel. We stopped off at a town called Hamilton, the self proclaimed "waterfall capital of the world". Now I don't want to be picky, but with Niagra 30mins down the road, that's quite a bold statement.
There's a place in Hamilton called Devils Punchbowl, it houses the third highest waterfall in the town, but is meant to be the best. We rocked up there to find that the waterfall had dried up for the summer, not looking so good for your claim now is it Hamilton.
Some Americans stopped us while we were there to ask us for directions to a trail, being the only Americans to leave their country we took pity on them and sent them in a random direction then promptly found the trail they were looking for which didn't look that good so we didn't feel too guilty.
We pushed on to Toronto via a 50 lane motorway and got there in just under an hour. The car still sounds like the rear axle is about to fall off but we're over that now.
Due to cost reasons we're staying a little outside Toronto centre so to get to downtown we had to get a taxi, a train and two subway trains. Amazingly this was really easy , you just buy one £2 ticket and you're good. Back home I couldn't get a bus to the end of the road for that, and it would be late, and shit, and you'd have to sit in someone's piss.
Given the general theme of the trip so far has been getting soaked and visiting high viewing platforms it seemed rude not to visit the CN Tower. This place is pretty tall, being the heighest observation deck in the Western Hemisphere at approx half again the height of the Eiffel Tower.
The elevator up had a glass floor which was a little spooky and vertigo enduring but it took less than a minute to reach the top so it wasn't too bad.
The viewing gallery was fairly empty and we had a good 20mins until sunset. Looking down there was a small air port to watch and directly below was a baseball game you could watch. This was particularly good on the glass floor section of the tower which gave a really unique view of the game.
We then upgraded and went another 100 meters up to the sky pod, a much smaller but awesome viewing deck.
From here we watched the sunset and the lights come on across Toronto. Martin took approx 2 terabytes of photos before we decided it was time to leave.
Back down at ground level we found a block of restaurants and indecisively picked one with a nice outdoor dining area as it was still warm. The waitress was about as miserable as it gets and was really only interested in talking to her friends. We sampled a few local beers here before making the journey back to our digs.
After the various trains and subways we opted to walk the few miles back to the hotel. It took about 40 mins and it was a warm night so it wasn't too bad despite having to play frogged across a 10 lane road, a section without pavements and a trip down a grass bank to cut across a car park. All in all we're pretty sure we're the only people to ever make that particular journey!
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