Saturday. a bright and shiny day. This is a city of devilish geometry, quiet alien to me. When I downloaded a city map before I came I quickly closed the file in fear. No cosy crescents or winding lanes here, just a logical grid. No roundabouts, but there are scary "all direction" crossroads where turn taking comes into its own. There is no clear priority or right of way, precedence is a matter of who stopped first.Like Sydney, it is a city of towers of gleaming glass that dwarf the few remaining heritage buildings of the 1800s, but the streets seem wider and the street car rails are mesmerising. At home we have dinky little platforms from which to board, but here you must stride with confidence into the middle of the road.
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Isn't the internet brilliant? I just used google maps and street view to find the place you took this picture from... Front Street East, right outside the St Lawrence Market. Did you go in? And look at that, have you clocked what the river valley is called that goes past Cabbagetown?
ReplyDeleteOh look, Toronto is not far from Niagara, are you going to go?