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hand-in-hand down Queen Street
West, ogling locals with multiple-
pierced body parts and out-

Susan R. Pollack is a freelance

writer based in Huntington
Woods.

landishly-colored hair. Sipping
expensive wines, sharing secrets
and rekindling their romance at
a cozy little bistro named Peter
Pan. Rubbing elbows the next
morning with power-breakfast-
ing movie stars in the classy Stu-
dio Cafe of the Four Seasons
Hotel, a gallery-like setting that
ranks as the city's top celebrity-
watching spot.
For Bruce and Cindy Hillen-
berg of Farmington Hills, Toron-

to evokes all these memories and
more. The couple never tire of
traipsing across the border to
Canada's largest city for a week-
end escape from their hectic dai-
ly routines as a.psychologist,
office manager and parents of
two.
Toronto, Hilleriberg says, "is
where we go to remember that
we're married. It's romantic, it's
cosmopolitan, it's Europe on a
smaller budget."

And, best of all, it's just a four-
hour trip by car or train from De-
troit and Windsor.
The warm months are an es-
pecially good time to chill out in
Toronto, where all kinds of cool
pleasures, literally and trendily-
speaking, await visitors —
whether they're traveling in
pairs, with families or alone.
Toronto's summertime sizzles
with dozens of special events cel-
ebrating everything from kids

(May 26-June 1), international
arts (May 29-June 8) and jazz
(June 20-9) to the Caribbean-
flavored Caribana (July 21-Aug.
4) and Northern Encounters, the
city's first festival showcasing
Arctic music, visual arts, film, sci-
ence and cuisine (June 1-30).
On six nights between June 14
and July 5, an international fire-
works competition, set to music,
will light up the sky over Lake
Ontario. And a worldly crowd of