This weekend there was an outdoor car show on Bloor St between Avenue Rd and Bay St. The Toronto Auto Show is normally downtown at the convention centre so this was an alternative free outdoor one.I biked down to take a look. There was a red carpet running down the centre of the street with the cars parked at diagonal angles on either side of the street. It was very crowded walking down the middle especially with my bike.It was nice to see a variety of cars, rang...

Every year two of Toronto's main highways are shut down for an annual charity bike ride for the Heart and Stroke foundation. As my old condo on Bathurst was right near the start line at the CNE ground I had participated annually while I lived there.The route starts at the CNE grounds downtown from where you can cycle along the Gardiner/DVP to Bloor St and back down for a 25km run. The 50km run continues up to York Mills and the DVP. While the 75km run loops back ...

On the second day of the 'Doors Open' Toronto weekend I targeted some different areas of the city but would have to use public transit today as parking would be an issue for some locations.I took the Queen streetcar downtown but it took more than an hour. There is construction going on the Queen streetcar track downtown and two parades on University Ave had closed streets causing a lot of congestion.First I visited 1 King St W in the financial district. This is a...

Every year Toronto hosts the 'Doors Open' event when many historical, public, architectural, and religious buildings are opened for free admission to the public. I had only been once before in 2008 when I visited many of the buildings clustered around the downtown core where I was living at the time.Back then the line ups were very heavy for the once a year opportunity to visit some of these closed access buildings. Here is my album from that yearhttps://www.flic...

On the Easter long weekend we decided to take my nephew to the newly opened aquarium next to the CN Tower downtown. I thought it might be a bit boring having been to so many aquariums in Asia but it turned out quite good.With the Easter holiday weekend crowds it was like a subway station platform at rush hour. The was barely room to move or get to any of the tanks. So many families had brought their young children and some had large strollers.The fun part was the...