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Day 22 Owen Sound-Toronto, Canada

Thursday 30th June 2005

sunny 30 °C

Absolutely Crazy.That just about sums the day up.Toronto is fantastic and thats only after the short 2 hour drive here which was crazy.Once we got onto the main highway (motorway in the uk) the driving was horrific.It made driving round central london in rush hour seem easy.Here theres 5 lanes of traffic all going in the same direction and unlike in the uk where the slowest traffic keeps to the left,in canada its a free for all.People are weaving in and out of lanes and around cars and cutting across 4 lanes at the last minute for the exit off the highway.Ive never seen anything like it before and you are concentrating so much not only on what you are doing but the other lunatics as well,and plus all the cars are driving nose to tail at 80mph+ at times and its scary.Soon we spotted the CN Tower (the tallest building in the world) and it doesnt look to bad and thats considering im not good with heights.But it towers so high over the other buildings its unreal.Then we made it to the hostel after eventually finding it (due to simon remembering the wrong number for it) and its bang in the centre of town.Its abit untidy and not the nicest ive stayed in by far and again like winnipeg theres no air conditioning and trying to sleep at night with the heat and noise of traffic isnt ideal.We walked around Toronto for abit though and its great and i like it alot already.After walking around the Eaton Centre (a big shopping mall) and eating in the Hard Rock Cafe simon went back to the hostel while jill and i found a very good pub and sat in there for a few beers.We left at around 11pm with me being abit drunk and headed back.Halfway to the hostel we spotted 2 women both dressed in all white and i have to say how 1 of them didnt get arrested for the lack of clothes she was wearing i wont ever know.They were undoubtedly the shortest skimpyiest pair of shorts i have seen EVER!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by -reece- 11:09 PM Archived in Backpacking | Canada

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