I’m in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
First impression: um… did I accidentally take a flight to the US?
Very interesting city, very friendly people, very much like every depiction of America I’ve ever seen on film. Seriously, my first experience with Toronto was a huge network of the widest highways I’ve ever seen. Who needs six lanes of highway!? If they’d told me they’d flown me to Los Angeles instead, I would’ve totally believed them.
It has this stink of garbage everywhere except in the parks.
The major thing that seems very un-American is that they have quite a lot of bike lanes, which is awesome. They used to have a system called Bikeshare whereby you could get a one-year membership for $30 and then borrow bikes for free, which would’ve been perfect for me, but unfortunately it’s no longer active, so I guess I’ll have to rent bikes by the day 
I bought a shitty pre-paid phone, so now I temporarily have a Canadian telephone number!
Also I’ve visited Best Buy for the first time in my life. It was scary.
That is all for now. Photos follow.
Don’t they have some large underground walkway /mall in Toronto?
Nice to see you got out of Best Buy with your soul intact. :p
…should’ve adviced you to buy the prepaid phone when I heard you were going…traveling with a phone is the only way to travel, and the way you chose is, in my experience, _always_ cheaper.
Congratulations on surviving the plane ride. By six lanes, do you mean six lanes on one side of the road? Or in total?
I never use a phone on holiday, but that’s probably because I have nobody to call while I’m on holiday. If someone would like to reach me … bad luck (unless I’m on a computer).
Have fun in Canada and don’t forget to spill the beans on Deus Ex 3, which we all know you will be playtesting …
Bob: Who says my soul is intact?
Mads: Actually since my regular cell stopped working when I left Europe, I should’ve just got a pre-paid number with Fido and put the new SIM card into my own phone, that would’ve me $34 CAD.
EER: Six lanes in each side of the road O_o – it’s pretty gratuitous.
I won’t even be going to Montreal, sorry – Toronto, Peterborough, and Winnipeg, that’s all.
well, I recall getting two cheapass verizon phones for, what was it….16U$ a pop?
Came with 10$ on them, added another 10$, and got the radioshack guy to set them up on a 1$ a day service that allowed unlimited minutes between them…
It might sound like an expensive up-front cost, but compare with my travel companions bills, and the many hours of talk I had with my x over the phone while there…..after all, when you’re traveling in a party of 3 or 4, sometimes you really need to coordinate…and sometimes, you just want to be able to call a cab.
Sounds like I got a shitty deal then, the cheapest phone they had was a $44 Nokia :-/
Nice piccies. I like the artificial creek. It would be nice if there were benches where people could have a snack and/or a cold drink in summer.