Good news everyone – Toronto has a cat cafe! So yes we dropped in for a visit. The walk up there was nice, saw some more local sights as we walked around. Toronto has some good quality street art around the place, reminds me a bit of home.

The cat cafe was small but functional – plenty of spaces for the cats to hide when they didn’t want to be around humans, and they all looked happy and healthy. (Well, there’s one that doesn’t look happy, but that’s the kind of cat).

After that we popped in to the shops, and Starbucks really go a bit crazy over here. A 1.4 litre bottle of cold Starbucks? Sure thing, here you go!

It was also interesting to see this notice, a sign of the times…

Lunch was at a kebab place – or rather, German Doner Kebab place. Not the kind of kebab we’re used to, but delicious all the same.

Next up, we caught a tram over to the Museum Of Illusion. Easy-peasy to catch since you can just use your phone or credit card to tap on.

The Museum of Illusion, well, it might have been more fun for kids, or people who have never seen an optical illusion on the internet, but it was a something to do for a little while. It was a collection of rooms and little exhibits with optical illusions, an ‘upside-down room’ , kaleidoscope mirrors, and the like.

We next wandered into St Lawrence Market

It took me a while before I remembered when we last visited – it was as part of a tour so we’d only had a short time to look around and grab a sandwich. So it was nice this time to be able to have a proper wander – it reminded me a bit of the awesome markets in the middle of Adelaide. There was an amazing amount of delicious things, quality produce, and of course the occasional souvenir shop. The cake shop looked just too good to ignore so one lemon meringue tart and a ‘peach cookie’ (more like a cake) made its way back to our room.

For dinner, we walked up to the entertainment/restaurant precinct of King Street West, to have dinner at place called “Hey Lucy!” – and hey, Lucy sure knows how to do delicious cocktails and Italian food. Really nice dinner! The Mint Cucumber cocktail was just the right level of tart and refreshing. The giant meatball had the most incredible tomato-based sauce. The little Mac and cheese balls were surprisingly light and not gooey, and the chicken and Brie pizza with roasted garlic was surprisingly light and unsurprisingly delicious. Winner winner Lucy dinner!

It was pretty busy out there for a Tuesday night which was good to see. There was a guy in a hat trying to get the perfect shot of the trams going by, probably for a YouTube channel. And then out the front of our restaurant were a few people teaming to try and get a perfect Instagram shot, at a guess. They were there a good 20 minutes, I think it takes that long to take that perfect picture that looks completely spur-of-the-moment 🙂

After dinner, walking back to our accommodation, we saw the place that was probably a more appropriate dinner destination!

All that’s left do now is eat the cakes we bought at the market earlier in the day, but think it’ll be a while before that happens.

‘Til next time, good night 🙂