Canada

We hadn’t yet done a big bike trip this year, so when a friend asked if we wanted to bike all the way to Paradise Beach in Ajax, 50km east of Toronto, we said sure!

En route to visit family, we often make a quick pit stop in Orangeville. But this year we decided to stay a bit longer and cycle the Vicki Barron Lakeside Trail!

On what will probably be the last warm “coats-optional” weekend of 2020 in Canada, we cycled the Beltline Trail in Toronto.

We took our Bromptons to explore the wild juxtaposition that is The Spit – half construction dumping zone, half protected wildlife park – in the heart of downtown Toronto.

We haven’t cycled much on Toronto’s east side, so we took the GO train to Rouge Hill station and checked out the eastern edge of the Waterfront Trail and the Highland Creek Trail.

Toronto is a huge city with lots of bike routes we haven’t explored – like the Finch Hydro Corridor. So this weekend we checked it out!

A beautiful ride on the Waterfront Trail from Toronto to Port Credit reminds us that there are lots of great cycling trips to be discovered in our home province.

In 2015, Toronto hosted the Pan Am Games and unveiled the Pan Am Path! This multi-use trail runs from the most north-easterly point of the city (Claireville Dam where Toronto…

So Ottawa does this awesome thing every Sunday, from mid-May to Labour Day weekend in September, called “Sunday Bikedays” where select highways (or parkways as they’re called in Ottawa) are…

After exploring Parliament Hill, we headed east on Sussex Drive (which has bike lanes!) to explore Rideau Hall and cycle down the Rideau River Eastern Pathway. I’m going to let…