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Blue skies, great visibility, and that Friday feeling - without question the best day to head into Toronto city centre and take in the views from the top of the famous CN Tower .  We had this and the aquarium left on our CityPASS , and given the fish are at the bottom of the tower it makes perfect sense to do them both on the same day. And I always love going into cities during the week when they are pulsing with the people who keep them alive - so given we had Friday, Saturday and Sunday left, Friday was the day. Readers of my previous post will not be surprised to learn we chose to drive rather than take public transport, and interestingly city parking doesn't seem too expensive (with a bit of research beforehand) so it seemed like a good idea all round. We drove in mid-morning, parked beside the Rogers Centre stadium, then walked round it using the easiest landmark on the Toronto skyline. What you can't see in this photograph is all the yellow tape round about the bas...

I always thought I'd prefer Canada to the US - be it the landscape, the people, or the culture. After all, it's the Scotland to England. The New Zealand to Australia. But you know, I lived in Australia for six years and I really  liked it - and I have some very dear Aussie friends now. Heck, my husband is English. Sometimes the underdog mentality only really comes from the underdog itself - or in this case, a fellow underdog: yours truly. And so I found myself and my preconceptions back in Canada. To be fair, Canada does not perpetuate the myth of being America's slightly estranged half-sibling, so I ought not to be comparing the two directly, but rather I'm looking at Toronto in relation to the other cities we're visiting on this trip (which happen to mostly be in the US). We spent last summer in Vancouver (which you can read about in some of my early posts ) and really enjoyed our time, though by the end we did feel like it was a splendid place for a summer (o...