Toronto, Canada

View from the plane over far northern Canada.

After hours of flying over the Atlantic the snow-covered landscape of north-east Canada started to appear in breaks of cloud. Toronto was our destination.

We spent a day in the city so this is an impression after brief acquaintance.

'Jack's got your back'

Canada Goose

CN Tower

Steam Whistle Brewery a historic brick railway roundhouse.

Roundhouse Park is a large park in Downtown Toronto in the former Railway Lands.

Roundhouse park

'Salmon Run'  by Susan Schelle

CN Tower reflected

'Remembering Our Past. Building a Safe Future'

'The Audience' sculpture by Michael Snow at the Rogers Centre, Toronto

Ripley's Aquarium was well worth a visit. It was better than we had expected and had a strong 'care for the environment' theme. Kids love it and the 'moving sidewalk' was genius.

Ripley's Aquarium

Ripley's Aquarium

So, the aboveground stuff is all very interesting but we were amazed by the stuff underground. Toronto has a path, an underground path, that is called PATH and I quote from the official website:

The PATH has over 30 kilometres worth of shopping, services and entertainment. According to the Guinness World Records, it’s the largest underground shopping complex in the world.

Providing a safe haven from the weather – cold and snow in the winter and humidity in the summer – over 200,000 commuters use the PATH on a business day. The PATH links to public transit and over 50 office towers

We walked along several kilometres of the PATH, we shopped, we ate lunch there and drank coffee, we explored various branches, nooks and crannies and used it to get to our underground train station. It's very very impressive.