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Long walk today, east along Bloor to Koreatown. But first, a note on the weather.
The last couple days have been 6 C whenever I check my weather app, but this has varied in feel. Yesterday afternoon I was prudent, wore my jacket over my hoodie, plus my winter hat, and still felt a bit chilly, especially in my legs, which usually are pretty tough. I'd been fasting all day, I dunno if that's part of it. Still, I had my walk. Coming back with Greek takeout, walking west I think into the wind, felt *particularly* chilly, and I put on my gloves (which lurk in the jacket pockets, unused since Feb 2019.)
The noon walk today was comfortable in my hoodie and sun hat. Definitely more sun, maybe less wind.
At 3:30 today the same outfit felt chillier, but I wanted to challenge myself, and figured it couldn't get cold enough to endanger me. After a while of movement, it stopped feeling chilly.
Conclusions: non-committal shrug. I'd still like to flee south to Barcelona, even if Canada is like the best covid country I can go to.
Anyway, Koreatown. Basically a long stretch of Bloor. Lots of Korean restaurants, some Asian markets. I noticed multiple fruit/produce shops, and there are a couple near each other on College too, Toronto (or Canada) just plain has a lot of them. Nothing too exciting about the area but I marked a lot of highly rated restaurants to maybe go to or pick up from.
Random note: Toronto seems to call convenience stores "variety stores". I'm still not used to them not being 'deppaneur'.
Other random note: At least three different parks here are sunken into the ground. Either Toronto had a bunch of pits that got turned into parks, or it's a design choice. Maybe to hide the street from people in the park? I wonder what it's like in the summer, if you're being hidden from breezes too. There was a sign in Quebec City about French gardens being sunken, but I'm not sure it's the same thing.
I ended up dining in an empty Japanese (probably Korean pretending to be Japanese, given 'bulkoki' on the menu) at 4:30, though it started filling up after that, including with an elderly woman coughing without a mask on. Yaaaay.
Bought some frozen dumplings.
brin_bellway had suggested cheaper groceries could be found at a No Frills in the mall. I'd been going to walk home, but walking 38 minutes to a grocery store felt too much; happily, the subway was *right there*. So I zipped over. "No Frills" makes me thing of something small and limited. It's huuuuuuuuuge. I can't say if it's cheaper overall, but did seem to have the cheapest bread I've seen in Canada, while still purporting to have flavors. And the store is about as far as the Metro store, though with a more residential walk -- OTOH, also less walk down those depressingly long blocks.
Hopefully I'll finish my work tonight, then I can go tackle Kensington Market and Chinatown tomorrow.
The last couple days have been 6 C whenever I check my weather app, but this has varied in feel. Yesterday afternoon I was prudent, wore my jacket over my hoodie, plus my winter hat, and still felt a bit chilly, especially in my legs, which usually are pretty tough. I'd been fasting all day, I dunno if that's part of it. Still, I had my walk. Coming back with Greek takeout, walking west I think into the wind, felt *particularly* chilly, and I put on my gloves (which lurk in the jacket pockets, unused since Feb 2019.)
The noon walk today was comfortable in my hoodie and sun hat. Definitely more sun, maybe less wind.
At 3:30 today the same outfit felt chillier, but I wanted to challenge myself, and figured it couldn't get cold enough to endanger me. After a while of movement, it stopped feeling chilly.
Conclusions: non-committal shrug. I'd still like to flee south to Barcelona, even if Canada is like the best covid country I can go to.
Anyway, Koreatown. Basically a long stretch of Bloor. Lots of Korean restaurants, some Asian markets. I noticed multiple fruit/produce shops, and there are a couple near each other on College too, Toronto (or Canada) just plain has a lot of them. Nothing too exciting about the area but I marked a lot of highly rated restaurants to maybe go to or pick up from.
Random note: Toronto seems to call convenience stores "variety stores". I'm still not used to them not being 'deppaneur'.
Other random note: At least three different parks here are sunken into the ground. Either Toronto had a bunch of pits that got turned into parks, or it's a design choice. Maybe to hide the street from people in the park? I wonder what it's like in the summer, if you're being hidden from breezes too. There was a sign in Quebec City about French gardens being sunken, but I'm not sure it's the same thing.
I ended up dining in an empty Japanese (probably Korean pretending to be Japanese, given 'bulkoki' on the menu) at 4:30, though it started filling up after that, including with an elderly woman coughing without a mask on. Yaaaay.
Bought some frozen dumplings.
brin_bellway had suggested cheaper groceries could be found at a No Frills in the mall. I'd been going to walk home, but walking 38 minutes to a grocery store felt too much; happily, the subway was *right there*. So I zipped over. "No Frills" makes me thing of something small and limited. It's huuuuuuuuuge. I can't say if it's cheaper overall, but did seem to have the cheapest bread I've seen in Canada, while still purporting to have flavors. And the store is about as far as the Metro store, though with a more residential walk -- OTOH, also less walk down those depressingly long blocks.
Hopefully I'll finish my work tonight, then I can go tackle Kensington Market and Chinatown tomorrow.
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Date: 2021-11-20 01:08 (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2021-11-20 01:48 (UTC)From:"Maybe that's why so many women prefer higher temperatures, so many of them are dieting."
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Date: 2021-11-20 02:14 (UTC)From:Wandering by from the friends' friends list- if you were near Koreatown you were also near Christie Pits where a honking big glacier wandered by and tore up the landscape several million years ago. This is why the pits, north and south, are sunken. The ravine system actually continues northwards by fits and starts.
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Date: 2021-11-20 03:45 (UTC)From:So they're glacial? Cool.
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Date: 2021-11-20 04:31 (UTC)From:Largely glacial. Around the university the ups and downs are due to Taddle Creek, that used to run from at least Bloor down to College until it was forced underground. Still crops up when people north of the university try to lower their basements. In fact, there's a Taddle Creek Park up there, that is a park and not a highrise because the developer found he couldn't put in underground parking. They named the park after the victor in that set to.
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Date: 2021-11-20 03:13 (UTC)From:Toronto also has some beautiful ravines and creeks that are not buried, but they are a little out of your way. There's a way down to Yellow Creek a little north from Castle Frank Station. Going the other way from Dufferin Grove, there is of course High Park and then the Humber River ravine.
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Date: 2021-11-20 03:14 (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2021-11-20 03:49 (UTC)From:I'm not sure how burying a creek gets you a pit...
But thanks!