Archive for January, 2007
Sunday, January 28th, 2007
Australia Day 2007
  Kew Beach GardenOriginally uploaded by simmogem. Unlike previous years, where Simon and I would spend Jan 26 in the sun counting down the Triple J’s Hottest 100 at Jess’s, this Australia Day was -17 degress and snowing. Despite this, we headed to Hemingways, a pub in the Yorkville district, where a couple of hundred [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Toronto by gemma
Saturday, January 13th, 2007
Scarborough Bluffs
 Contrary to our last topic of the Toronto Path, today Gemma and I ventured out into the cold to visit Scarborough Bluffs roughly 10km east of where we live on Lake Ontario. A short walk from the bus stop took us to the top of the bluffs where on a clear day you can [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Toronto by simmo
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
‘There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path’
This weekend we are expecting Arctic winds from the north west, which should bring a wind chill temp of about -21 degrees. So what do the citizens of Toronto do in this sort of weather – go underground! This map is of the underground pathway that sprawls below the Toronto CBD and connects more than 50 of the [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Toronto by gemma
Sunday, January 7th, 2007
Where to from here?
There is only about 3 months left in Toronto before we move on so we have started making some concrete plans for the end of our adventures abroad. This Map shows all of our planed destinations, you can zoom in with the controls on the left, click and drag to move around in the map, [...]
9 Comments » - Posted in Toronto by simmo
Monday, January 1st, 2007
New Years Day with the Menendes Family
New Years Day with the Menendes Family Originally uploaded by simmogem. New Years Eve was relatively quiet, we went into town to see the fireworks in Nathan Phillip Square but after an hour of standing in the rain decided to head down Queen Street to Jeremiah Bullfrog. It was there that we rang in the [...]