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Toronto's Old and New City Hall stand right next to each other in the secret city center of the metropolis. They are only separated by a large square. In the summer, tourists relax on it after their city tour, and the residents take a break from everyday life.
Toronto is one of the most multicultural cities in the world. Allegedly they speak more than 140 different languages and dialects there. The 2006 census found that nearly half of Canada's largest city (49,9%) are from other countries.
Do you know what it's like when you are booked into a five-star hotel and you don't know whether you will feel comfortable in the exclusive surroundings of such a top hotel? In some of these top hotels, the guest is treated slightly condescendingly and I usually feel somehow out of place. Quite different in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Toronto: the […]
Toronto's Kensington Market is a great place to explore Toronto's multicultural mix. Here you will find shops and restaurants that show the cultural diversity of Toronto.
We are in the Bata Shoe Museum Toronto. The Bata Shoe Museum is near the Royal Ontario Museum on Bloor Street. In this museum you can learn a lot about the role of shoes around the world. We meet the founder of the museum, Sonja Bata. She tells us how she got her shoe collection.
A Walk on the Toronto Waterfront What do you do when you arrive in Toronto exhausted, the sun is shining outside and the blue sky beckons you outside? A stroll along the Toronto Waterfront overlooking the Toronto Islands and Lake Ontario. Between Queens Quay and the Toronto Islands Ferry Station, you can[…]
Culinary tour through Toronto On our culinary journey through the world, we do not want to miss an insight into the cuisine of Toronto. Toronto and its population groups are made for a culinary tour through Toronto, and we are sure that we will discover a lot of interesting and, above all, delicious. Therefore we join [...]
Our tip: Toronto's suburb of Leslieville is worth a trip As you know, we were in Toronto again this year, a city that we already know well from numerous visits. But as is the case with a city with 2,6 million inhabitants: you never really know it. And that's no different in Toronto. [...]
Snow storm in North America. What that means is different from what we are used to in Germany. A different kind of winter adventure! Better to stay at home during a snowstorm in North America.
The loyal readers among you know that on our travels through Canada we are almost always in the car. Sometimes we switch to ferries or smaller boats, but otherwise we never travel in Canada by train. However, this time on our winter trip to Ottawa and Toronto we decided to take a trip with VIA [...]
