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Jen is in town from Vancouver for a little over a week during her reading
break. Of course, since this year's winter hasn't been too cold, we
decided that the best use of a Saturday afternoon would be to go for a
long bike ride. We had a few things we wanted to do downtown, so we
headed east from home. Instead of just riding down Bloor like we often
do, we decided to ride through some of the neighbourhoods and see some
new sights.
At Dundas St., just north of Bloor, we crossed the railway tracks by
using the pedestrian bridge. It even has handy ramps to make it easy to
push a bike over the bridge.
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Jen on the bridge.
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Looking south along the tracks.
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...and now looking north.
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Jen was...ummm...posing for the camera.
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Closeup of Jen with her stylish sunglasses.
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Some old factory / warehouse buildings on Dundas St. beside the tracks.
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After zig-zagging eastward through the neighbourhoods, we came to our
next destination. On Yarmouth Rd. (just south of Dupont, between
Ossington and Bathurst) we found the "big elephant" on someone's front
lawn.
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Jen and I first heard about this big elephant on Stuart McLean's CBC
radio show. Stuart didn't mention exactly where it was, but then in
a recent edition of Spacing Magazine it mentioned it was on Yarmouth Rd.
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So here we are, at the Big Elephant, a neat little Toronto landmark we've
wanted to see for many months.
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Me, posing with the elephant.
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Jen and the elephant.
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After hanging out by the elephant for a bit, we continued our ride
downtown. We went to the Urbane Cyclist (it seems all trips
downtown end up there...), and then walked over to MEC while Jen had
a few repairs done to her bike.
Here are a couple of photos of hot-dog-eating mural in a parking lot
just off King St.
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Mmmm...hot dogs. I was getting hungry....
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...so after picking up our bikes at Urbane again, we went to King's
Noodle House on Spadina for some Chinese food. The best part of going
to these asian restaurants is the hot tea you get as soon as you sit
down at the table.
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I chowed down on some duck. Yes, the meat hanging in the window of this
place is delicious!
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| All photographs ©2006 Victor Gedris |
