Toronto - Day 1

Heathrow, Terminal 5, efficient, pretty empty, but with an hours delay before we took off, all hot and sweaty trapped in that tin can on the runway!
Personal TVs and headsets for each passenger. Some complimentary champagne from one of the stewards who had a note to look after us - so thanks whoever organised that!!
Tristan was sitting by the window and spotted a plane, NO, a boat, NO an iceburg!! (my first sighting.)
Toronto airport had a giant golfball on a tee for a radar tower, our passports were checked as we left the plane and then later we got our first stamp of the trip.

Toronto is a huge great, grey, building site. It looks really drab and it has huge roads (5 lanes each way plus a 2 lane smaller road running parallel on each side), exits from both sides of the road, crazy drivers and it seems you have to always have your lights on when you are in the car.

Our hostel is good, we have a bunkbed with a double below and a single above. It is in the 'big' room, just enough to have our packs on the floor and us standing next to them. I wonder how small the small rooms are! The showers are great though!

We went for a long walk past the CN Tower and down to the edge of Lake Ontario. Getting rather tired as it was 1am in the UK; we went to have dinner, Tristan had a 'side' of Fries and a lobster tail. The fries were the biggest portion I have ever seen, at least enough for 6 people!

I slept like a log, but Celso couldn't sleep with the fan on. It is very humid but not too hot; around 27 degrees. We will try to load some of our first photos.

You may be able to see our photos by clicking on the title (Toronto - Day 1)these photos are in picasa (not Flickr as I said to some of you before, though we do have photos there aswell!)

Thanks, see you all soon, no, that's not right, see you next year, but I'll blog again soon
Bec / Reb