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good morning
good morning good morning dear friends
we are here for another adventure of
toronto as a local
and i'm currently at the place in the
city where
vloor street one of the most you know
significant streets in all of toronto or
some weird
reason changes its name to the danforth
today we will be seeing the area of the
city that is called
the danforth it has a few distinct
neighborhoods in it
the main one that we're going to be
checking out is greek town
and then after that i will be taking you
guys to one of my favorite parks
off of the danforth which has the most
incredible view
of toronto and after that we will be
going on the don
valley bike path all the way to
evergreen brickworks so we've got a
pretty packed agenda up ahead of us i
hope you guys are
excited it's a beautiful day here in
toronto
so let's get to it
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all right guys we are here on the
danforth
and when you just get off the bridge
there are quite a few really good like
restaurants and things to see
there but i really wanted to take you to
the section of the danforth that
is probably the most well-known and the
one that i personally love best
which is greek town as with all the
other cultural districts that we visited
here as well they have like a yearly
festival that is so much fun
that is so popular and this is one of
the districts that i feel like
actually has so many local businesses
that
are you know greek and there's a very
very very strong cultural
heritage so i'm excited to show you guys
this area
and if you're ever in toronto i would
really recommend
coming to greek town
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and just in case you guys are wondering
uh toronto
entered stage two of reopening
uh probably about two weeks ago by the
time you guys
are watching it but i am so
excited that that's happened because
that means restaurant patios are allowed
to
operate hair salons i'm really going to
need a haircut soon
and also the toronto island ferry is now
going to be operating at half capacity
as you guys will see quite a few of the
street signs here
are in greek which i think is pretty
cool
so we are just north of pape subway
and bus station and i am trying to find
a little greek bakery that a friend of
mine told me i
absolutely have to try it's called
serrano it's just a couple blocks
north of paper
so i see it is very popular there is
a lineup
and
two more of the ones with the almond
fillings
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so that was chaotic but absolutely
worth it i got one of those uh greek
whoopie pies i don't even know
what that is if that's like similar to a
donut but
uh i think i'm gonna do a little bit
more walking around
greek town and then i'm gonna grab where
i put my bike
and then we are going to go to this
beautiful park
that i was telling you guys that has
this amazing view
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so this beautiful park is called
riverdale park
east it's just off of broadview
and if you guys watched my first video
where i did chinatown in this series
second chinatown that i was talking
about is actually out
this way off of dundas and i don't know
what other street but it's like right
close to this area if you were
already in this area and wanted to check
something else
really cool out it's just um itself
that way but yeah i love coming to this
park for
sunsets especially you get such a nice
view of the skyline
and just beautiful colors in the sky and
there's a coffee shop that i would
really like to recommend to you guys
just across the street here on broadview
called rooster coffee
there's a few locations in toronto but
this one here
across from riverdale park is just
amazing
it's one of my favorite coffee shops in
the city i'm still
full from lunch so i don't feel like i
can really handle any coffee or anything
else
for that matter for a while but yeah if
you guys come down here
come to rooster coffee
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so as i was telling you guys before the
place that we are now
heading to is called evergreen
brickworks
and this is also kind of a nature
reserve that's
really nice to go to to just relax but
it was actually a former
quarry or query i'm not quite sure how
to pronounce it
but it was where they made um basically
all the bricks
that have built all the historical
buildings here in toronto
so it's got an interesting history
they've kind of turned it into
an environmental sanctuary as well
all right so we have reached pottery
road
and we need to get on
wherever those guys are going i forget
the name of the street
bay view that's it that's the word i
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it is hot out today guys it's like plus
28 right now but
we are here in the brickworks as i said
this is kind of
i don't know ecological sort of
sanctuary they do a lot of environmental
sort of work in this area there's
actually a lot of classes
that schools come to take here they
bring a lot of like school
field trips here and on the weekends
they actually do
farmers markets kind of in this open
area there'll be a lot of
local vendors that set up and then
further on over here there's a whole
indoor sort of section where
they have a cafe and restaurant i'm not
really sure
if it's open right now we'll go check
but they also have a
green house over there in that area
there's usually a bike shop that's open
and sometimes they even do yoga classes
or different kinds of
you know workout classes that they have
and some of their
other buildings in the area so it does
look like the
cafe restaurant and greenhouse
are closed which is kind of sad
considering that
patios are allowed to be
open maybe they will open um
later on in the month it really just
started a couple days ago
so not everybody is open yet but yeah
i'm still gonna take you guys on a
little walk
of this area because it is really
beautiful there's a little
man-made lake you can go sit by the
water there's actually even a few hiking
trails
around here so lots to do
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so there really is so much to do in this
area
and i hope you guys enjoyed this video
and it gave you some
ideas about what you could do if you're
thinking of coming to
the danforth and the don valley one last
thing that i wanted to show you
guys but i'm not really able to because
i'm actually running late
for an event i have tonight is you see
this kind of trail that winds around
here and then it later
goes on top of this sort of hill
that point right there will give you a
really nice
view of the danforth even downtown a
little bit
and just just a really really nice
panorama that was the last thing that i
wanted
to do with you guys but i realized that
i'm running a little bit late and still
have to
get home so i hope this was enough to
give you an idea of some of the things
to do in this area
i really would recommend renting a bike
if you want to do exactly what
i did today because it is a lot of
ground to cover on foot
and public transit is okay but you might
be waiting around
quite a long time for buses so if you're
not scared to bike and are able to bike
i would recommend that
but yeah i hope you guys enjoyed this
video thank you so much for tuning in
and as always i hope you guys are having
a great day and keep being your own kind
of beautiful
bye guys
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