We got up, had coffee and started to pack and clear up the apartment. We had arranged to leave our bag with the concierge in the building so we could spend some more time in the city before our flight which was scheduled for 7.10 p.m.
We took the subway, Wow!! what a subway!! for a couple of stations from our local station at University and Queen. The transit system allows the purchase of a day pass which costs C$11 and allows two adults or one adult and several children to travel all day. This is a great deal.
Of course, the NYC subway which has just celebrated its 110th anniversary is a lot older and often shows its age, but Toronto's subway is the way a modern subway should be.
Our destination was ROM or the Royal Ontario Museum and its neighbor the Gardiner Museum of Ceramics at Bloor Street.
ROM is in a wonderful old building with a very modern and controversial new annex.
The Museum holds a large collection of prehistoric and dinosaur pieces, a costume exhibit, a large First Peoples' section, a large Asian collection as well as the history and development of Canada in furniture, paintings and other art.
There is an excellent children' section.
At the Gardiner Museum there was an exhibition of work by the British ceramic artist Clare Twomey. She had taken three characters from the collection of Commedia dell Arte collection in the museum and replicated them many times. The small statuettes are set out on the floor and will be added to every day until there are more than three thousand of them. When we wer there they were already about two thousand in positon
Below are some of the Gardiner Museum's collection of Commedia dell'Arte figurines
After the Museum we took the subway back to the apartment area. I stocked up at a local pharmacy on some Buckleys cold and flu medicine. It tastes awful but it works and it seems to be unobtainable in NYC. we had a quick lunch before retrieving our bag and taking a cab to the airport ferry.
After the short ferry trip to the airport we checked in and were again offered an earlier flight and after a short delay left at about 6.30 p.m. A short but at the end a bit bumpy flight saw us home again in Newark. A quick passage through the airport and a cab home ended our very enjoyable short trip to Toronto.
We took the subway, Wow!! what a subway!! for a couple of stations from our local station at University and Queen. The transit system allows the purchase of a day pass which costs C$11 and allows two adults or one adult and several children to travel all day. This is a great deal.
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| Toronto subway - open from end to end |
Our destination was ROM or the Royal Ontario Museum and its neighbor the Gardiner Museum of Ceramics at Bloor Street.
ROM is in a wonderful old building with a very modern and controversial new annex.
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| The modern annex and entrance of ROM |
The Museum holds a large collection of prehistoric and dinosaur pieces, a costume exhibit, a large First Peoples' section, a large Asian collection as well as the history and development of Canada in furniture, paintings and other art.
There is an excellent children' section.
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| Part of the Chinese collection |
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| The cupola in the old building of ROM |
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| Some of the exhibits from the 'First Peoples' Section of the ROM |
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| MAC in a 'modern' chair!! |
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| Part of the large dinosaur display at the Museum |
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| Another view of the cupola |
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| Doesn't look too happy, does he? |
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| An Axotl |
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| Mac strokes a stuffed raccoon |
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| An enormous totem. |
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| A statue outside the Gardiner Museum. |
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| Clare Twomey's 'Piece by Piece' exhibit |
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| Some of the wonderful Gardiner Museum collection of Commedia Dell'Arte figurines |
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| A display of ceramic vases, can you spot the two boys? |
After the Museum we took the subway back to the apartment area. I stocked up at a local pharmacy on some Buckleys cold and flu medicine. It tastes awful but it works and it seems to be unobtainable in NYC. we had a quick lunch before retrieving our bag and taking a cab to the airport ferry.
After the short ferry trip to the airport we checked in and were again offered an earlier flight and after a short delay left at about 6.30 p.m. A short but at the end a bit bumpy flight saw us home again in Newark. A quick passage through the airport and a cab home ended our very enjoyable short trip to Toronto.
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