Saturday June 4th

Again a somewhat lazy start and breakfast at about 10.00am. Decided to check out a restaurant just down the road. Good choice a place called The Richtree! First we could not find the door and the signs on all those facing the street telling us to enter via the building lobby. It turned out the building which we had assumed was just an office block in fact contained two floors of shops in an atrium with the lower floor being part of Toronto’s underground walkway system and also housed the Hockey Hall of Fame (which seems very popular).

The Richtree turned out to be a market style eatery with thirteen stations (bakery, grill, fish, fruit, pasta, coffee, juice, salad, liquor, etc etc), where you chose what you wanted and they cooked or prepared it for you and swiped your card, credit card style. All the produce was fresh and the choice seemed endless. Its open from 7.30 to late (2.30am on Friday and Saturday). I had bircher muesli and juice and Michele fruit salad and eggs.

Checked out of the hotel and then visited the main municipal square, simply named Dundas-Yonge Square after the two streets it is on the corner of. Interesting signage on all the adjoining buildings. A Mexican festival was taking place with entertainment and market stalls.

Walked west a few blocks to the AGO, the art gallery of Ontario, recently remodeled by Frank Geary. This is the same architect who designed the Getty centre in LA we were taken with in 2006. Admired it from the outside and lobby and then went north for about a mile to the ROM, the Royal Ontorio Museum, also recently remodeled. Our reason for doing so was that they currently are running an exhibition on the Dead Sea scrolls and have actual pieces on display together with some relics of the Temple of Jerusalem and other buildings of the period. We found it quite interesting.

Late light lunch and back to the hotel via the underground to pick up our cases and catch the train to Niagara, which we are on as I write. This train has wi-fi although it seems to have a hiccup at the moment.

Having some trouble with the new net book which seems to have a mind of its own and keeps jumping all over the page which makes typing difficult, but we will persist until we get home and give it back to Toshiba to be repaired.