I didnt had sleep that night because I was hanging out with my Vancouver friends. One of them gave me a lift to Vancouver island and the ferry. We left Vancouver at 4:00am to be early in line at the ferry. I was soooo tired. Then I arrived in Victoria. Its a very touristic town with a little harbour. This weekend they had the dragon boat races. Was fun to watch. The backpackers I will stay this night is the Victoria Backpacker. I cant recomand it becuase the stuff is really unfriendly, its loud and noisy. You share the room with 19 other people and I heard about theft. I thought I will stay not longer than one night in Victoria so I booked this whale watching trip. Its a rip-off. It cost me about CAN$ 72 and basically we all had the change seats because there where not enough on the boat. So better next time: use the small boat where everybody is seated. I used the big one because they recommanded it to me for doing photos. Finally yes we saw one orca. But we didnt came close at all…

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On my last day in Toronto I went on the CN Tower. Once the tallest building on the world the tower is one of the national icons of Canada. I had to wait about an hour for going up and later agin few minutes for the second platform. The view was quite nice but to be honest its not really worth it.

“The CN Tower, located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is a communications and tourist tower standing 553.33 metres (1,815.39 ft) tall. It surpassed the height of the Ostankino Tower while still under construction in 1975, becoming the tallest free-standing structure on land in the world. On September 12, 2007, after holding the record for 31 years, the CN tower was surpassed in height by the still-under-construction Burj Dubai. It remains the tallest free-standing structure in the Americas and the signature icon of Toronto’s skyline, attracting more than two million international visitors annually.

CN originally referred to Canadian National, the railway company that built the tower. Following the railway’s decision to divest non-core freight railway assets, prior to the company’s privatization in 1995 it transferred the tower to the Canada Lands Company, a federal Crown corporation responsible for real estate development. Since local residents wished to retain the name CN Tower, the abbreviation is now said to expand to Canada’s National Tower rather than the original Canadian National Tower; however, neither of these are commonly used.

In 1995, the CN Tower was declared one of the modern Seven Wonders of the World by the American Society of Civil Engineers. It also belongs to the World Federation of Great Towers.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CN_Tower)

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Toronto has few old houses. Two of them I visited today. Both were used as museums and are decorated with mostly original furniture. One is Spadina, the older one. Spadina is native american for mountain. Its situated on a mountain, or better hill. The other is the famous Casa Loma. This house is build like a medieval castle because that was one dream of his previous owner Sir Henry Mill Pellat.

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This Saturday was the great Caribana Parade in Toronto. Lucky the weather was sunny and hot after a few drops of rain. I had so much fun. This parade is all about the Caribbean. So the island people were beautiful and colorful costumes and dances to calypso and other kinds of reggae music. Read the rest of this entry »

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Today I visited the buy sumycin online Bata Shoe Museum. Here you can see a wide collection of shoes of all times beginning with a duplication of the oldest known shoe of the “Ötzi” glacier man. They have the original wedding shoes of Queen Victoria, shoes of Pope Pius and socks of Napoleon. Interesting were the tiny shoes for the Chinese lotos feet ladies. At the moment they have a special exhibition of ballet shoes and moccasins of the native Americans. Those I liked most. The museum is probably the only shoe museum of its kind in the world. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Royal Ontario Museum is Canada’s biggest national historic museum. It shows skeletons of various dinosaurs, a beautiful Asian collection with Chinese temple statues and also one of the best furniture collection of all epochs, starting with the medieval times. I liked the beautiful restored rooms of the renaissance, baroque and so on…you really have the feeling to be back in those times and it helps to understand old paintings of those times. Also I really liked the native American collection because that was new for me. As a special they have right now a Darwin exhibition what shows the complete life of Charles Darwin and his travels and his evolution theories. Very interesting.

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The weather on this Friday was sunny so Mark and I decided to go to the Beaches Jazz Festival. There is lots going on and we went to walk on the street where all the different bands were playing. It was lots of fun and good music.
Before that we had spend a few hours at the beach of lake Ontario.

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Today the weather was good in the morning so Mark and I went to the Niagara Falls. On the way there we stoped at Fort George and I learned a bit about canadian history.

“Fort George National Historic Site is a historic military structure at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, that was the scene of several battles during the War of 1812. The fort consists of  earthworks and palisades, along with internal structures, including an officer’s quarters, blockhouses to accommodate other ranks and their families, and a stone powder magazine, which is the only original building on the site. Opposite the fort, across the Niagara River, stands Fort Niagara in New York, which can be seen from Fort George’s ramparts.
Fort George was built by the British Army after Jay’s Treaty (1796) required Britain to withdraw from Fort Niagara. The new fort was completed in 1802 and became the headquarters for the British Army and the local militia.
Fort George was captured by U.S. forces in May 1813 at the Battle of Fort George. The American Army used the fort as a base to invade Upper Canada, but were repelled at the Battles of Stoney Creek and Beaver Dams. The fort was recaptured by the British Army in December.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_George,_Ontario)

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