what do you do at the weekend in canada?
Jun 15th 2005 | 4:57 am
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Re: what do you do at the weekend in canada?
Originally Posted by flashman
From your description it seems that they were all Canadians.
Jun 15th 2005 | 7:11 am
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Re: what do you do at the weekend in canada?
[QUOTE=pollard]
Oh....here are some more pics, in case you missed them
http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...=307695&page=2
Lovely. The four year old wants to know if we could go to Canada on Saturday.
Oh....here are some more pics, in case you missed them
http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...=307695&page=2
Lovely. The four year old wants to know if we could go to Canada on Saturday.
Jun 15th 2005 | 10:36 am
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Re: what do you do at the weekend in canada?
Some circle you move in, breakfast in scarborough which you survived by the sound of things, didn't manage to get shot, and then had joint afterwards, in the mustang I presume? LOL
So where do you recommend in little india for curry then?
So where do you recommend in little india for curry then?
Originally Posted by dbd33
We had a different sort of weekend, much more urban but typical of Toronto.
On Friday evening we walked the dog along the boardwalk, we chatted with other dog walkers before going to sit outside the pub. The dog's a swimmer and wet dogs are not welcome inside. On Saturday we had to go to Scarborough so we had breakfast at the Wexford, an excellent greasy spoon. In the evening we met some friends and went to Little India where we ate curry at the usual place before sitting on the friends' deck drinking wine and smoking joints. On Sunday we went riding and then to the Cafe Brussels for dinner, that's an excellent place, it's a Belgian restaurant so the card lists thirty variations of mussels. We finished there quite early so we caught a band at a bar on our block, again there was beer and weed but I was moderate, some of us have jobs to go to.
I'm English, my partner's an American, the friendly dog walkers were Germans, the curry servers are Indians, the Belgians are Belgians, the fellow riders were a French woman, an Indian man and an Asian woman. The pub's owned by three people, the Australian and the Jamaican were there when we were. The customers are mainly Irish or English. The band was from Scotland. One of the friends is Quebec Irish, otherwise though, we didn't knowingly meet any Canadians all weekend.
On Friday evening we walked the dog along the boardwalk, we chatted with other dog walkers before going to sit outside the pub. The dog's a swimmer and wet dogs are not welcome inside. On Saturday we had to go to Scarborough so we had breakfast at the Wexford, an excellent greasy spoon. In the evening we met some friends and went to Little India where we ate curry at the usual place before sitting on the friends' deck drinking wine and smoking joints. On Sunday we went riding and then to the Cafe Brussels for dinner, that's an excellent place, it's a Belgian restaurant so the card lists thirty variations of mussels. We finished there quite early so we caught a band at a bar on our block, again there was beer and weed but I was moderate, some of us have jobs to go to.
I'm English, my partner's an American, the friendly dog walkers were Germans, the curry servers are Indians, the Belgians are Belgians, the fellow riders were a French woman, an Indian man and an Asian woman. The pub's owned by three people, the Australian and the Jamaican were there when we were. The customers are mainly Irish or English. The band was from Scotland. One of the friends is Quebec Irish, otherwise though, we didn't knowingly meet any Canadians all weekend.
Jun 15th 2005 | 10:46 am
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Re: what do you do at the weekend in canada?
Hope you said yes to the wee one? lol
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Oh....here are some more pics, in case you missed them
http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...=307695&page=2
Lovely. The four year old wants to know if we could go to Canada on Saturday.
[QUOTE=Elhombre]
Originally Posted by pollard
Oh....here are some more pics, in case you missed them
http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...=307695&page=2
Lovely. The four year old wants to know if we could go to Canada on Saturday.
Jun 16th 2005 | 12:16 am
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Re: what do you do at the weekend in canada?
Originally Posted by pollard
Some circle you move in, breakfast in scarborough which you survived by the sound of things, didn't manage to get shot, and then had joint afterwards, in the mustang I presume? LOL
So where do you recommend in little india for curry then?
So where do you recommend in little india for curry then?
In Little India we sometimes go to the Madras Durbar, south side of Gerrard (not the knock off across the road), it's a South India place and vegetarian. South Indian food involves a lot of yoghurt, yoghurt and rice, yoghurt and donut (!) Service is unhurried but the food's great and eating ten bucks worth is a challenge. For North Indian, vindaloos, kormas and the like we go to the Shan-I-Hind/BBQ Hut (it opened with the first name but the owners thought that too exotic for Toronto and added BBQ Hut so as not to frighten off potential customers). We go there a lot. Enough to be able to order "the usual" for delivery. It'll run up to fifty bucks a person, depending on booze consumed. I'm told that a place to avoid in Little India is the Udapi Palace, a chain restaurant, "India's Answer to McDonalds". We used to go to Kabul Kebab as well but it's being renovated and while they still serve I just don't want drywall mud in my dinner.
I think I'm unique locally, btw, in not smoking joints, everyone else seems to wander out of the pub and back in but I get piss tested for work and I don't want to take the chance.
Jun 16th 2005 | 8:44 am
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Re: what do you do at the weekend in canada?
Thanks for those suggestions, we will have to check those out, when next we wander past that way. By the sound of things, it looks like we are going to enjoy it.
Originally Posted by dbd33
I've often not been shot in Scarborough and the Wexford has the second best peameal and eggs I've found (after the Toronto shrine for carnivores; The Tulip), still one does want to look about a bit before getting out of the car.
In Little India we sometimes go to the Madras Durbar, south side of Gerrard (not the knock off across the road), it's a South India place and vegetarian. South Indian food involves a lot of yoghurt, yoghurt and rice, yoghurt and donut (!) Service is unhurried but the food's great and eating ten bucks worth is a challenge. For North Indian, vindaloos, kormas and the like we go to the Shan-I-Hind/BBQ Hut (it opened with the first name but the owners thought that too exotic for Toronto and added BBQ Hut so as not to frighten off potential customers). We go there a lot. Enough to be able to order "the usual" for delivery. It'll run up to fifty bucks a person, depending on booze consumed. I'm told that a place to avoid in Little India is the Udapi Palace, a chain restaurant, "India's Answer to McDonalds". We used to go to Kabul Kebab as well but it's being renovated and while they still serve I just don't want drywall mud in my dinner.
I think I'm unique locally, btw, in not smoking joints, everyone else seems to wander out of the pub and back in but I get piss tested for work and I don't want to take the chance.
In Little India we sometimes go to the Madras Durbar, south side of Gerrard (not the knock off across the road), it's a South India place and vegetarian. South Indian food involves a lot of yoghurt, yoghurt and rice, yoghurt and donut (!) Service is unhurried but the food's great and eating ten bucks worth is a challenge. For North Indian, vindaloos, kormas and the like we go to the Shan-I-Hind/BBQ Hut (it opened with the first name but the owners thought that too exotic for Toronto and added BBQ Hut so as not to frighten off potential customers). We go there a lot. Enough to be able to order "the usual" for delivery. It'll run up to fifty bucks a person, depending on booze consumed. I'm told that a place to avoid in Little India is the Udapi Palace, a chain restaurant, "India's Answer to McDonalds". We used to go to Kabul Kebab as well but it's being renovated and while they still serve I just don't want drywall mud in my dinner.
I think I'm unique locally, btw, in not smoking joints, everyone else seems to wander out of the pub and back in but I get piss tested for work and I don't want to take the chance.
Jun 16th 2005 | 10:24 am
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Re: what do you do at the weekend in canada?
Originally Posted by babyblue
Just thought i would start a little thread of inspiration for all to share.
We all watch the weekends come and go and what do we really do with it!
Well I am off to my trailer this weekend. Looks like the weather is with us here in Ontario. Light the campfire, roast a few marshmellows(now i have been shown how to actually do that properly). A few beers and soak up the sun. Steaks on the a BBQ.
Oh yes! and fight off the blasted mossies!
check out a few yard sales. I love a bargain!
We all watch the weekends come and go and what do we really do with it!
Well I am off to my trailer this weekend. Looks like the weather is with us here in Ontario. Light the campfire, roast a few marshmellows(now i have been shown how to actually do that properly). A few beers and soak up the sun. Steaks on the a BBQ.
Oh yes! and fight off the blasted mossies!
check out a few yard sales. I love a bargain!
Jun 16th 2005 | 11:15 pm
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Re: what do you do at the weekend in canada?
Originally Posted by pollard
Thanks for those suggestions, we will have to check those out, when next we wander past that way. By the sound of things, it looks like we are going to enjoy it.
Jun 17th 2005 | 12:01 am
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Re: what do you do at the weekend in canada?
[QUOTE=Elhombre]
A fellow guelphite! I am also amazed at those Hamilton pics. Need to go see that one of those weekends when there is no Salsa dancing in KW area or T.O.!
Originally Posted by pollard
hello babyblue,
we visited a falls in hamilton, and did the wine route drive of the niagara area
Hi Pollard,
I've just picked my jaw off the floor! Those pictures are beautiful its unreal. I just can't wait to get to get the family out to Guelph.
H
we visited a falls in hamilton, and did the wine route drive of the niagara area
Hi Pollard,
I've just picked my jaw off the floor! Those pictures are beautiful its unreal. I just can't wait to get to get the family out to Guelph.
H
Jun 17th 2005 | 8:47 am
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Re: what do you do at the weekend in canada?
Just wanted to show another side to Hamilton, it gets so much negative stick, and people don't get to see the good sides to it. Even it's neighbouring town of stoney creek is beautiful
Jun 20th 2005 | 12:14 am
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Re: what do you do at the weekend in canada?
a great weekend at the trailer!
weather not at its best but you make the most of it. Gave me a chance to do some inside alterations.
It was lovely to walk along the lake on sunday morning. Nobody around and a coffee freshly brewed. Little peice of heaven!
what did you do this weekend?
weather not at its best but you make the most of it. Gave me a chance to do some inside alterations.
It was lovely to walk along the lake on sunday morning. Nobody around and a coffee freshly brewed. Little peice of heaven!
what did you do this weekend?
Jun 20th 2005 | 12:17 am
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Re: what do you do at the weekend in canada?
It's not very far from Hamilton to Long Point. We went camping there on the weekend. It's a sand spit stretching into Lake Erie so it's nice, if you like sand; the pictures were taken from outside our tent. There was a lot of sand, sand in the bed, sand in the food, sand in the car, sand in the ice cubes in the cocktails.
Jun 20th 2005 | 12:34 am
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Re: what do you do at the weekend in canada?
Originally Posted by dbd33
It's not very far from Hamilton to Long Point. We went camping there on the weekend. It's a sand spit stretching into Lake Erie so it's nice, if you like sand; the pictures were taken from outside our tent. There was a lot of sand, sand in the bed, sand in the food, sand in the car, sand in the ice cubes in the cocktails.
Jun 20th 2005 | 12:41 am
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Re: what do you do at the weekend in canada?
Originally Posted by babyblue
wow! it looks wonderful. It was worth all the sand!
Jun 20th 2005 | 3:59 am
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Re: what do you do at the weekend in canada?
Originally Posted by babyblue
Just thought i would start a little thread of inspiration for all to share.
We all watch the weekends come and go and what do we really do with it!
Well I am off to my trailer this weekend. Looks like the weather is with us here in Ontario. Light the campfire, roast a few marshmellows(now i have been shown how to actually do that properly). A few beers and soak up the sun. Steaks on the a BBQ.
Oh yes! and fight off the blasted mossies!
check out a few yard sales. I love a bargain!
We all watch the weekends come and go and what do we really do with it!
Well I am off to my trailer this weekend. Looks like the weather is with us here in Ontario. Light the campfire, roast a few marshmellows(now i have been shown how to actually do that properly). A few beers and soak up the sun. Steaks on the a BBQ.
Oh yes! and fight off the blasted mossies!
check out a few yard sales. I love a bargain!
