Willowdale Community Ride with Councillor Lily Cheng

Lily Cheng is the Toronto city Councillor for Willowdale. She has been working with Toronto BikeShare to bring stations to Willowdale. The area is getting nine stations in 2024, and three more in 2025. To encourage Willowdale residents to try biking and BikeShare, Councillor Cheng held a Community Ride on September 14, starting at AvondaleContinue reading “Willowdale Community Ride with Councillor Lily Cheng”

Rochester- Day 2

It’s easy to forget that Covid is still circulating and continues to be a potentially deadly and disabling disease. I caught it for the first time at the end of March of this year. I would preferred not to catch it again . One of the things that I do help me evaluate risk isContinue reading “Rochester- Day 2”

Bratislava – Day 17

After breakfast together at the hotel, we decided to walk to the old town for hot chocolate. On the way we looked in the “new market” near the hotel. It was built in 1983 when the city needed a market space, because the old market had been re-purposed as studios for Slovak television. It isContinue reading “Bratislava – Day 17”

Bratislava – Day 8

The day started beautifully, warm and sunny with a temperature of 14° rising to 20° this afternoon. I was able to sit on the terrace for breakfast, and the espresso beverage machine was working again. I decided to use bike share to explore the city today, stopping when something looked of interest to me. IContinue reading “Bratislava – Day 8”

Bratislava- Day 7 – And Austria

It rained overnight which meant that the furniture on the terrace was wet, so I had breakfast inside. And, all of the espresso beverage machines were out of order this morning. So I had to have brewed coffee. But these are very minor complaints. I was surprised that espresso beverages were included in the breakfastContinue reading “Bratislava- Day 7 – And Austria”

Bratislava – Day 6

Michael was very quiet getting ready and leaving for breakfast, so I didn’t hear a thing. I was aware of him coming back to finish up in the room before heading to work, but only momentarily and I fell back to sleep. I had breakfast on my own on the terrace. It was lovely withContinue reading “Bratislava – Day 6”