Toronto

For us living in a small city like Kingston, it is tremendously eciting to spend time in a metropolis like Toronto. We had a "program"....the firs t item of which was to visit the Art  Gallery of Ontario in order to see the Picasso exhibition.  The Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris featured more than 150 highlights from the Musée’s unparalleled collection, including paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings. It was quite captivating despite the fact that we had seen several pieces of Picasso before....but the timeline of his work was very well reprensented here. In the same gallery, we enjoyed another exhibition, this one by the contemporary Chinese artist Zhang Huan: Ash Paintings and Memory Doors. 
Another fun activity was to meet a friend at the new home for TIFF (Toronto Internation Film Festival) which is a beautiful, welcoming five-story complex at the corner of King and John Streets in the heart of downtown Toronto. we had lunch in its Oliver and Bonacini restaurant and enjoyed the fashionable Toronto crowd!
Besides our long walks in the Chinese quarter, Queen street east and west and Spadina street, we also visited the International Jazz Festival at The Beaches and took the opportunity to visit yet another part of Toronto.https://www.google.com/search?q=the+beaches+toronto&hl=zh-TW&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=4RQkUJynN_GEygHNtYGYBw&ved=0CG8QsAQ&biw=1280&bih=849

As we had our folding bicycles on board, we used them to tour all the Toronto islands. And what fun it was! Among the highlights, there was the second oldest lighthouse of the Great Lakes, at Gibraltar Point.  The Island Lighthouse is the oldest landmark in Toronto. From its site on Gibraltar Point, it has watched most of Toronto's history unfold; its light beam has, for more than 150 years, been a welcome guide for the mariner into the Harbour of Toronto. And it appears that the lighthouse keepers and his family became the first inhabitants of this area, slowly drawing more and more people to its quiet land. There are
over 600 residents and 250 houses on the islands. We toured both communities located on Algonquin island and Wards island.

We ended our bike tour with a huge ice cream cone while looking at kids having fun on the rides of the Centreville Amusement Park !!!!