A few weeks ago, when I was still free to travel, we went to visit our friends Carol an
d Luciano, in Mississauga, in the Toronto metropolitan area (GTA).
It's always nice to visit them, but again, it had to be something fast, going on Friday and back on Sunday.
Despite the 475km door-to-door, the route from Ottawa (Kanata in our case) to GTA (Mississauga) is quiet and hassle-free. The most obvious path between the two cities is by highways 417 – 416 – 401 and 403, respectively, which can be done in approximately 4h30min, since all stretches are duplicated (or tripled / quadrupled in some areas) and it is all flat and better, without toll. We always take longer (5+hours) because it has stops and any delays because of the pipi-stops… Errr… traffic and construction sites. Speaking of which, better to avoid passing through downtown Toronto (highways 401) between 2:30 and 6 p.m., when it attacks rush hour on the 401- metropolis problems… 🙂
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| Route Ottawa – Toronto (or more specifically, Kanata – Mississauga) |
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| It's knots in the picture! At one of our stops!! |
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| Passing through Toronto |
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| Toronto – love these views! |
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| CN Tower – always beautiful! |
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| Lol… I found the shop at least interesting – how about this façade!? |
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| You can't not register! |
As the weather in Toronto-Mississauga is usually rushed, there is no time to visit much. This time, we decided to take a little jump at the Eaton Centre in downtown Toronto and check out the movement and Christmas decorations!
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| Christmas decorations |
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| Alice checking out the Christmas decorations at the Eaton Centre |
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| Mess |
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| The 7 of us in the sweet-home of friends!! |
Kisses, kisses!
