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[avrelia]

Do you know what’s up with Italian wines in Toronto?

I bought already the fourth bottle of wine that is really cheap (around $7 Can., where the average would be $15), and it is good. Why don’t people buy it all the time? Of course, my understanding of a good wine is pretty much “it doesn’t suck”, but, well if it leads me to enjoy $7 wine, there is nothing wrong about this understanding.

Also I have a dream that I don’t have to go to work today. But then I woke up, and I do. Right now.

But you can look at pictures while I am working:



ETA: these pictures made on Sunday morning, October 24, on King Street E, walking to and from the George Brown College.

Comments

[soundingsea.livejournal.com]

Very cool, especially the overhead streetcar cabling system. Makes me want to visit Toronto again!

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

Yes, this cabling system creates a closed space, which I didn't notice until I took the picture.

Makes me want to visit Toronto again!

Good. ::grins::

[jonesiexxx.livejournal.com]

They've dug up the streetcar rails on College/Carlton. Presumably they'll replace the cars with buses. And presumably they'll do this city-wide eventually.

Could be worse. When I first visited New Orleans, many years ago, I asked my friend (who lived there) if we could take a streetcar named Desire. She replied, "No. But, we can take a bus named Desire."

At least when we lose our streetcars we won't be losing a legacy of romance.

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

I take it that you liked the pictures, right? *g*

I love streetcars as means of transit, and because I have a very personal connection to them through my grandparents who worked with them all their life.

But it seems that streetcars (or trams) are leaving cities everywhere, which is a pity, since no other transit has this romantic feel to it, as well as the special place in literature.

[missmurchison.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tour! I appreciated it on this gloomy morning.

And congrats on finding the wine bargains.

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

The pictures are not very new (I edited the post to include the date and place), and I am glad they proved useful.

[the-royal-anna.livejournal.com]

I love cheap wine. I've never in my life found a wine that was undrinkably awful, and it's nice sometimes to be able to drink wine without knowing that each sip dissolves a little bit more of your bank balance. :)

Hooray for pictures! What beautiful colours. They're very atmospheric and I am squeeing over the...um...squirrel? It's black! Are there really black squirrels in your part of the world?
A black squirrel foraging among beautiful autumn leaves is a delightful treat if ever there was one.

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

I've never in my life found a wine that was undrinkably awful

You were looking in the wrong places. ;) or, actually in the right ones.

And squirrels are black here – or grey. I know, it was as surprising for at first, because squirrels were supposed to be red. And squirrels are everywhere here. Not only they are of a different colour (black and grey are the same zoological type), they are much braver and/or annoying than I was used to. Not so much in Toronto, but in British Columbia squirrels would run into me and demand food, they were also planted peanuts in my clematis pots, and tried to open balcony doors and get in.