Ok so my journey didn't start out quite the way I'd planned....... My first issue was a slight panic about the 94mm sudden downpour that Toronto was in the middle of receiving. Road closures, bad floods and mass power outages all occurring in the 24hrs before I was due to arrive. Awesome..... Whenever I'm travelling, I always break each trip down into small manageable sections, so the first part of this one was to fly from Manchester to Heathrow and I knew at least that part wasn't going to be affected by floods in Toronto, so I left home Tuesday morning and had an uneventful flight down to Heathrow. So far so good.... My flight to Toronto was on a standby ticket as I booked it through my friend Emma's staff travel account which saved me
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