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Old 02-19-2014, 07:40 PM
 
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I'd rather go to DC than Toronto. Been there a few times, going over that bridge is a PITA. And now I need my passport, I'd rather stop at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo.
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Old 02-19-2014, 07:42 PM
 
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I have crossed many times. Canada ripped my car apart once, but I didn't care that much. I got to were I was going. Toronto is okay. I liked Chinatown, but I didn't think it was nearly as fun as NYC or DC and the food was just okay. The locals seem to like chain type places and we were encouraged to tourist type places. We loved Niagara by the Lake and the wine people knew food WAY better and directed us to amazing restaurants way out of the way. That was fun. I would go back to Toronto and probably will, but it was just pretty nice, not great.
Niagara on the Lake is truly beautiful. Very good white wines in that region and some very fine restaurants, as you say. We rode around the wineries on the extensive bike trails - it was superb fun and a great tasting experience. Very good chance we'll make it back there this summer, especially as we're nearly out of Jackson-Triggs chardonnay
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Old 02-19-2014, 07:50 PM
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Niagara on the Lake is truly beautiful. Very good white wines in that region and some very fine restaurants, as you say. We rode around the wineries on the extensive bike trails - it was superb fun and a great tasting experience. Very good chance we'll make it back there this summer, especially as we're nearly out of Jackson-Triggs chardonnay
So you ski AND enjoy wine.
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Old 02-19-2014, 07:52 PM
 
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Toronto: New York City, run by the Swiss. I go to every few years...to gorge in Little India, ride the trolleys, attend the Cabbagetown Festival, and swim in the lake if it is warm enough.

I think that a lot of people see the passport as a barrier.
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Old 02-19-2014, 07:54 PM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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So you ski AND enjoy wine.
You guys should date! It would be so cute!
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Old 02-19-2014, 08:06 PM
 
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So you ski AND enjoy wine.
Both regularly and in excess, yep ....t

In fact Lailey made the best chardonnay we tasted up there. A new one on me, but it was very fine, Chablis-like stuff.
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Old 02-19-2014, 08:25 PM
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Both regularly and in excess, yep ....t

In fact Lailey made the best chardonnay we tasted up there. A new one on me, but it was very fine, Chablis-like stuff.
Some of the reds and ice wine was also quite tasty. I was pretty impressed up that way. We really had a great time! Glad there are others.

I do want to mention something about Toronto that turns me off. The mayor is very against bicyclists and that makes me not want to support them at this time. If he gets the boot and they get with the times, I would be more interested, but to be honest, NYC is WAY ahead of Toronto in my book. Toronto is going backwards with that stupid mayor of theirs. I won't go back until he is gone and the people apologies for voting an idiot like that in!
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Old 02-19-2014, 08:44 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh area
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Heh, funny, I'm surprised we didn't get around to the Toronto mayor before now. Ah, well, mainly he'll be gone soon enough I suspect. I wouldn't read too much into voting him in before. It's if they vote him in again later (a la Barry in DC) that you wonder if the voters are also smoking crack.
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Old 02-19-2014, 08:45 PM
 
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But Hopes, earlier in this thread you may have said something like ...
We did enjoy going to Toronto and other areas of Canada.

I've been clear that we no longer go since the border crossings became a hassle.
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Old 02-19-2014, 09:01 PM
 
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I always heard Montreal was better to visit. Also, 95% of what I know about Toronto involves Rob Ford.
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