Day 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 (1st of Sept – 6th of Sept) – Trunna - Eat, Coffee, Walk, Coffee, Eat, Sleep, Repeat

Important information was left out of the last blog in regards to Day 33. We will quickly cover it here. Last night we had an exquisite french dinner to celebrate our last night in Montreal. We had the duck confit and salmon tartare for mains and for dessert we indulged in creme brulee, it was divine, however still not as good as Jessica Christie's!

Day 34 and we bid Montreal adieu. We headed to a popular place for breakfast , l’avenue de plateau, that was famous for Eggs Benedict among other things. We lined up for about 15 mins before getting a table, we both had Eggs Benny and they were only ok. We had a great week in Montreal eating, drinking and seeing the sights. Our train didn’t leave Montreal til the late afternoon, so we spent sometime ‘frisbee frowing’ and watching the locals drumming in Mont Royal Park before heading to the train. We arrived back in Toronto around 2200 and it felt good to be back.

The smoothies were the highlight of breakfast 

Eggs Benedict

Perfect throw. Mount Royal in the background

Local drummers drumming

We saw some very interesting characters

Day 35 was Labour Day public holiday in Canada. It also is a pretty grim day for the Canadians as it signifies the end of summer. As you can imagine it would be pretty upsetting knowing all the snow, sleet, ice rain and -20 are right around the corner! We didn’t get up to much today, Eddie took us out for some breakfast and then we spent the rest of the day regrouping and frisbee frowing.

Day 36 and all our local accomplishes are back at work. Today we headed out for a coffee and breakfast before heading downtown to find out a little more about the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). We didn’t have many options due to only being in Toronto for the first day of the festival and the two films we wanted to see being world premieres. Tonight we made Sam, Eric and Eddie dinner to thank them for having us. Casesar salad with the works.

Day 37 was a beautiful day and we were heading out to the Toronto Islands, the islands are a small. We walked towards Lake Ontario and grabbed a coffee on the way. We eventually found the ferry terminal and headed over to the islands. The islands parks were very well maintained and had beautiful flowers everywhere in full bloom. We grabbed some lunch before having a walk around and heading back to the mainland. We managed to stay away from the clothing optional section of the islands, lucky, eh! Today was a huge walking day, Jo had by now developed some substantial blisters and I had worn the sole out of 3 pairs of Nikes. 

Toronto Island

Toronto Island gardens and CN Tower in the background.

Beach on Toronto Island

Jo feeling the waters of Lake Ontario and skimming rocks.

The city of Toronto

Day 38 and you guessed it we went for a coffee!!  Today we planned to spend the day doing some shopping. Let’s just say today went to plan. We had been recommended a Vegan restaurant for lunch called ‘Fresh’.  Jo claims that it was one of the meals of the trip and I can’t raise much rebuttal because the food was amazing.

Tiger bowl with brown rice and Energy booster with noodles 

Day 39, Carn the Swans!! I arose early with great anticipation as the Swans semi-final game was being televised, albeit a few hours delayed. This meant no early morning score checks. I sprung out of bed a little earlier than Jo so I headed out to grab some coffee, bagels and croissants (I know what your thinking, Is this guy single? Sorry ladies I’m taken). Jo staggered down stairs to the smell of a Americano’s and French style pastries with her iPad in hand ready to watch the footy. The game was drawn at half time and very exciting, let’s not talk about what happened after half time.  After the game we patriotically headed for the Australian Consulate to vote in the federal election. We were disappointed there were no sausage sangas being charcoaled on a barbie but it was good to have a chat a couple a strayans, who in true strayan form had also left voting to the very last minute. 

Aussie (more than likely a Queenslander); G’day bloke, which flamin’ galah are youse voting for??

Mitch; I’m not sure, the one with the best policies??

Aussie; Struth, youse ain’t from Queenslands is ya??

Mitch; No, we are from NSW.

Aussie; Oh bloody hell, what bout your sheila??

Mitch; Yes, we are both from Newcastle, NSW

Aussie; Right (turns away as if to feel insignificant around New South Welshmen)

Mitch; (looks to Jo and shrugs shoulder with smugness)

Aussie; Aye, have youse got any Vegemite??

(The above conversation may or may have not even remotely taken place.)

Post vote we walked our way though the city to the TIFF red carpet. The world premiere of ‘The Railway Man’ a film starring Colin Firth and our Nicole Kidman was having a red carpet and we perched up like a couple of groupies ready for a glimpse of Colin and Nicole. I managed to get some extremely close up footage of Nicole Kidman with my GoPro camera and Jo got some snaps on the other camera, Nicole was very beautiful in person. Brad Pitt had a movie premier on at the same time and we both asked ourselves why we chose Nic over Brad but I think it came down to supporting the aussie?

Spot Mitch and the go pro..... oh, and Nicole.

Nicole Kidman

Colin Firth and Jeremy someone...

For dinner and a few drinks we headed to the Wheat Sheaf, the oldest pub in Toronto. After dinner we headed to a couple more establishments before heading home to get in a good sleep before our New York adventure.

Yours from the red carpet

Mitch & Jo

xoxox