And... Action!

You begin to notice it slowly at first...

Something just feels a little... off... but you can't quite put your finger on what it is...

Then you realise - hey! This isn't William street! Who changed that sign?

Hmmm, that's odd, there never used to be a subway station here... and our subway stations don't even look like that!

And why is there a cop car outside my apartment? Is something bad going down?

Then it hits you - you're on the set of a movie!

Toronto is a very popular movie-making destination as it can easily be made to resemble New York city, although it's much, much cheaper to film here. In fact, the city is often nicknamed "Hollywood north". In the two years we've been here we've seen countless advertisements, TV shows and movies being shot around the city. It's amazing how little is needed to transform a block into a New York scene. Just add a couple of UPS post boxes, a trash can and some yellow taxis and hey presto - you're in the big apple! My new favourite game is called 'Toronto-spotto', where I watch a movie filmed here (such as Robocop) and try to recognise where the scenes were filmed (such as a high speed chase scene in Robocop that passes by the gelato shop one block away from our apartment). The Pac-Man themed Mini Coopers in the first picture were for an Adam Sandler movie called 'Pixels' - look out for it in 2015 in a cinema near you!