When I lived there as a university student, Kensington Market was a low-rent working-class neighborhood & most of the shops were run by Portuguese immigrant families. Now it's a super trendy area butted up against a vastly expanded Chinatown & anywhere in downtown Toronto — like Canada's other major cities — commands monstrous rents only yuppies can afford.
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| I always associated onion domes with Central & Eastern Europe, but they're not uncommon in Northwestern Europe.
Onze Lieve Vrouekerk, Antwerpen, 2013 |
All I know about this pretty little building alongside the River Schelde is what the name tells me: "Zealand Grain Market".
Zeeuwse Koornmarkt, |
I didn't care much for Toronto when I lived there, but visting now I find my old neighborhood nostalgically homey. 37-35 Henry St, Toronto, 2014 |
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| This old car morphed into a planter cum work of art. Despite very strict parking laws, the cops leave this one alone. Kensington Market, Toronto, 2014 |
The kind of cold desolate coast only a Canadian could love. Spent many a happy afternoon here with my son & grandson. Seabright Beach, Salt Spring Island, 2014 |
Traditonal gasshō-zukuri (thatch-roofed) villages like this can still be found tucked in among the mountains of rural Japan. Ainokura, Toyama Prefecture, 2014 |