Tea Dot

I've been wanting to go to Toronto since I first heard Abdominal's T Ode almost a decade ago. He just made the city sound like somewhere I wanted to visit (which is more than I can say for any London song that I can think of off the top of my head).

And so I finally made it. I had friends to show me around, this meant I avoided the bulk of the more touristy things to do (CN Tower, p'uh) in favour of doing things that Torontonians actually do (Escape rooms, drinking ale, eating at English pubs - all things that I definitely couldn't do at home). I think that that's what Abdominal would have wanted.

We went to the Ex - Canadia's National Exhibition - which was a Village Fair that had been supersized. So much stuff. So much food I couldn't find the fabled pulled pork eclair in the food court so had to settle for chilli-cricket, steak taco.

Obviously I've been trying to consume all the new things (standard), so far I've tried ice wine (about 80 percent sweeter than wine needs to be) and a Caesar, which tasted like a Bloody Mary.

I stayed in The Beaches. Now in my head Toronto is thoroughly in land so I had always figured that The Beaches was either The Beeches or some other corruption. But no, Toronto has a legit beach. A beach on a lake hey? What will they think of next?