NYE in NYC

New Years Eve in New York City! Times Square is supposed to be one of the biggest and best NYE parties in the world…but Continue Reading…

American Natural History Museum, NYC

There’s two things that will actually get me interested in a museum, one is having stuff you can play with, the second is dinosaurs And while the American Natural History Museum is severley lacking the former, it has loads of the latter!

There’s a couple of huge, complete dinosaur skeletons including a T-Rex and a Diplodocus, and other giant prehistoric beasts like the Woooly Mammoth. We spent a fair few hours here. Its also across from Hyde Park and close to Peacefoods Cafe as I mentioned in the last post!

New York City!

Well I’m only just back, having taken 30hrs to return from the UK, and I’m off to New York City! It’s only an overnight bus away from Toronto and, at $80 return, pretty damn good value. Continue Reading…

Brighton, England

Winter isn’t exactly the best time to head to Brighton, most people go for the beach, but I’d never been, I wanted to visit Vegetarian Shoes, and it fit into my tourist-in-london mentality!

Vegetarian Shoes is a UK shoe company making ethical, vegan shoes. Their quality is top-notch, and while you can buy online, I wanted to check the fit and get some decent boots to handle a Canadian winter! And with the $4 fake vans I had from Thailand being my only current shoes before picking up my gear in Gosport, I needed them badly!

I tried one of the many veggie restaurants for a quick lunch and headed out to Brighton Pier. To get to the end of the pier you basically have to walk through a gambling hall, and out to the abandoned theme park. There were people there manning some of the rides, but I highly doubt they were going to get any customers.

With the rain picking up and getting colder, there wasn’t a lot to do really so I got a vegan hot chocolate and headed back to london!

UK Xmas 2009

I ventured back to the UK for 2 weeks to collect the rest of my stuff and prepare for a Canadian winter, but the weather in London was colder and with more snow than I have seen so far in Toronto! Continue Reading…

Toronto Fast Track 2009

Another fast track for Toronto to help catch up!

Roller Derby!

After Hockey and Curling, and probably a few others, Canadians like to Continue Reading…