Toronto–August 13, 2022

Not too many pictures from today; it was my last day in Toronto, and I was also getting a bit tired.

Chinatown

I started out the day in Chinatown. I saw this design again. I still have no idea what it is, so if anyone with a knowledge of Toronto can help out, let me know.

Lots of wall art here as well.

Wall paintings of the Great Wall.

More Chinatown art

Kensington Market

I then got to the Kensington Market area, which has a lot of small restaurants, arts stores, and far too many wall paintings for me to get pictures of. Here are just a very few of them. The first few are from the Chinatown area, but they fit here better.

This one is a Chilean comic book character named Condorito, one of whose catch phrases is “¡Exijo una explicación!” (I demand an explanation!). The comic strip has been around for ages, and I followed it for a time, though, to be honest, a lot of the jokes were incredibly sexist.

OK, back to more wall art.

Miscellaneous

I walked over to the Church and Wellesley area of Toronto (the gay district; they were having a small fair with people selling vaious cosmetics, jewelry, etc.)

Happy ninjas.

These are from the front of a branch of the Toronto Public Library.

And more stuff...

The ninja returns!

Signage

Today’s spelling error

Someone doesn’t quite have their spray paint technique mastered.

Toronto really does a good job with wayfinding. Here’s an example of one of the signs. The bottom half shows the immeidate area; the circle shows a 5-minute walk from the current location. The upper half shows a larger area with a 15-minute walk. In both cases, the map is oriented with the direction you are facing at the top. This is incredibly useful for people like me who can’t rotate a “north is always at the top“ map in their head.