{"id":615,"date":"2009-05-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/?p=615"},"modified":"2014-02-08T18:21:03","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T17:21:03","slug":"gemischte-gefuehle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/2009\/05\/05\/gemischte-gefuehle\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed emotions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>I am not sure what to think of <span>Toronto<\/span>. On the one hand, the tourist sights are not <em>that<\/em> exciting. On the other hand, however, I really enjoyed the &quot;other&quot; (<abbr title=\"that is\">i.e.<\/abbr> &quot;everyday-life&quot;) Toronto that I was able to explore thanks to being shown around by some friends living here.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I spent a day walking around Downtown, which is dominated by the usual skyscrapers. The most unusual sight was the <span xml:lang=\"es\" lang=\"es\">Casa Loma<\/span>, a castle built by a local tycoon in the early 1900s. However, he lived there for only ten years before he went broke.<\/p>\n<div class=\"center\" style=\"clear:left;\">\n  <div class=\"hoch wp-caption\">\n  <div class=\"hoch_li\">\n  <p class=\"image\">\n   <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/canada\/on\/toronto\/index_02.htm\" class=\"lightbox-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img192x256\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/canada\/on\/toronto\/thumb\/02.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"256\" alt=\"[Picture]\" title=\"CN Tower\" \/><\/a>\n  <\/p>\n  <p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n   <span xml:lang=\"en\" lang=\"en\">CN Tower<\/span>\n  <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"hoch_re\">\n  <p class=\"image\">\n   <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/canada\/on\/toronto\/index_04.htm\" class=\"lightbox-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img192x256\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/canada\/on\/toronto\/thumb\/04.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"256\" alt=\"[Picture]\" title=\"Old City Hall\" \/><\/a>\n  <\/p>\n  <p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n   <span xml:lang=\"en\" lang=\"en\">Old City Hall<\/span>\n  <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"clear\">\n\n  <\/div>\n<br \/>\n  <div class=\"mixed_3to4 wp-caption\">\n  <div class=\"hoch_li\">\n  <p class=\"image\">\n   <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/canada\/on\/toronto\/index_05.htm\" class=\"lightbox-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img192x256\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/canada\/on\/toronto\/thumb\/05.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"256\" alt=\"[Picture]\" title=\"Casa Loma\" \/><\/a>\n  <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"quer_re\">\n  <p class=\"image\">\n   <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/canada\/on\/toronto\/index_06.htm\" class=\"lightbox-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img256x192\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/canada\/on\/toronto\/thumb\/06.jpg\" width=\"256\" height=\"192\" alt=\"[Picture]\" title=\"Casa Loma\" \/><\/a>\n  <\/p>\n  <p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n   <span xml:lang=\"es\" lang=\"es\">Casa Loma<\/span>\n  <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"clear\">\n\n  <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n  <div class=\"quer_re wp-caption alignright single-image\">\n  <p class=\"image\">\n   <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/canada\/on\/toronto\/index_01.htm\" class=\"lightbox-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img256x192\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/canada\/on\/toronto\/thumb\/01.jpg\" width=\"256\" height=\"192\" alt=\"[Picture]\" title=\"Downtown Toronto\" \/><\/a>\n  <\/p>\n  <p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n   <span xml:lang=\"en\" lang=\"en\">Downtown Toronto<\/span>\n  <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n<p>Among others, my friends took me for a bike ride along the shore of Lake Ontario, which I enjoyed very much. Surprisingly, the view of Downtown from Humber Bay even reminded me a bit of cycling on the Danube Island&nbsp;&#8211; even though the Danube is a river, not a lake, and the buildings in the <span xml:lang=\"de\" lang=\"de\">Donau<\/span>city and the Donauturm are much lower than the skyscrapers and the <abbr>CN<\/abbr> Tower here in Toronto.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not sure what to think of Toronto. On the one hand, the tourist sights are not that exciting. On the other hand, however, I really enjoyed the &quot;other&quot; (i.e. &quot;everyday-life&quot;) Toronto that I was able to explore thanks to being shown around by some friends living here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[60,29],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-diary-rtw2008","tag-city-sights","tag-rtw2008","country-ca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}