Hello from Toronto! What a journey it has been to get to our final destination before our long haul flight home. We are staying at another Fairmont in Toronto and this poor old building is really showing its age. Hardly any hot water for showers and part of the shower actually broke off this morning. But having said that, isn't this a beautiful foyer with its cedar ceiling.......
As soon as we checked into our hotel and deposited our suitcases we walked the short distance to the waterfront for a bite of lunch. The place we found was quite good but the food was a bit lacking. Mind you, I have a head cold so most food tastes a little bland at the moment!
After satisfying our appetites we headed back to our room for a bit of R & R before our tour the next day. The tour was to Niagara Falls and it included a scenic route and lunch at a nice restaurant. After confirming the time for pickup we waited outside the hotel. And waited. And waited. Finally I rang the tour company who told us that we were booked for JULY and not JUNE! Bugger. Our one and only mishap over the two months we have been travelling so we can't complain. We will get a full refund so that is good news. But of course that left us with the dilemma of how we were going to get to see Niagara Falls. Fortunately a visit to the conceirge had it sorted out. There were commercial bus lines running backwards and forward to the falls each and every day, and the terminal was only a block from where we were staying. So, tickets purchased, off we set.
Niagara Falls are awesome, and I'm so pleased that we got to see them albeit in a little less style than we envisaged! We walked along the boardwalk stopping at various viewpoints but I have to tell you the crowds at the falls were almost overwhelming. So many people.
We were actually pleased to get back on to the bus for our return journey, a journey that should take around two hours, but we hit heavy traffic as we neared Toronto that added an extra hour onto our journey. We didn't arrive back to our hotel room until after 8am but it wasn't so bad because we can have a sleep in tomorrow morning. Our driver will pick us up at 11.30 to take us to the airport.
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