Tag: Eastman Double-X (5222)

  • Earlier this week, I boarded a train bound for Toronto. It was a rare adventure taken on my own, with Kathleen remaining at home. The reason for the trip was to pay my younger sister a visit and because I am supposed to be undergoing surgery later this year, we’ve been sparing travel expenses and…

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  • …and move through we did. Once the place we were eating lunch at remembered that we were there. They were too busy doting over a table of seniors who were ordering hot soup and coffee on a 30C day to remember the sweaty transsexual and her partner they were serving (at least in theory) at…

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  • Once we were finished with the Bata Shoe Museum, we decided that we would pay a little visit to the Distillery District. I had only been once before (in the off season) and Kathleen had never been. I think the walk to and from the area was probably the best part of it. On balance,…

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  • Speaking of the awful heat, we learned a valuable lesson while on our walk from Yonge to the Farm: as beautifully green as Cabbagetown is, it did not escape our notice that the further east we walked, the more humid it became. The plant life was pleased as punch, but, well, I’ll just say that…

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  • On our first full day in the city, heat dome intensifying, we decided that our first goal for the day was to visit the Riverdale Farm! Neither of us had ever been, but I had heard about it many times growing up and, of course, it didn’t escape us that there were at least a…

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