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The Bellwoods Lounger
Trinity Bellwoods Park on a sunny Saturday: a blanket, a coffee, no plans, and half the city doing the same.
THE LANEWAY familyFinds a coffee shop, a park and a random shop nearby and suddenly four hours have disappeared.
Unhurried, flexible and happy letting a neighbourhood occupy the entire day. You like Toronto one neighbourhood at a time, with no list and nowhere to be.
Your four letters
OffbeatDiscovery
Prefers local, niche, unexpected or lesser-known experiences.
The other side is C, Classic.
SpontaneousPlanning
Likes flexibility, improvisation and changing plans.
The other side is P, Planned.
Toronto, for an OSZN
Where to stay
Trinity Bellwoods or Leslieville. A park, good coffee and everything else on foot.
Trinity Bellwoods Park
A blanket, a coffee, the side streets off Queen West. That's the day. That's the whole plan.
Leslieville
Coffee roasters, brunch and a quiet east-end main street.
High Park and Roncesvalles
A huge park with a village next door. Twenty minutes from downtown, a different planet.
What to skip
Anything with a timed entry.
Your people, and your problem
THE LANEWAY
“The detour is usually the point.”
Toronto hides a second city behind the first: thousands of laneways running behind the main streets, full of murals, garages and tiny houses. Laneway travelers treat the plan as a suggestion and the side street as the destination.
How to travel: Book the bed and almost nothing else. Pick a streetcar, ride it until something looks interesting, and get off. Toronto is a city of neighbourhoods, and it is a very good place to be aimless in.
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Two minutes, no wrong answers. Koko works out your four letters and picks places in Toronto to match.
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