Blogs from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, North America - page 6

Do not understand where my previous entry went. Part of it appears here, not all. I hate technology. It's over come us. It's eaten us and spit us out and we don't even realize it.. What did you miss? 12 hours killing time in Toronto Pearson. Constantly impressed by niceness of Canadians. Read in my book about the Silk Road. Had a Godfather with Dewars to destress. Was told that my 8 hour flight to Lima would not provid eme with a meal. The agent at the Air Canada desk said that could not be. It is illegal to imprison people in the air without food. All I had was Vietnmese chicken broth, and although it was excellent Vietnamese chicken broth, it will not sustain me for the next 9 hours. Dealing with nonfunctioning tech is ... read more

Geo: 43.7001, -79.4163It's been five years since Hamish's last North American conference was held in Toronto, and Alan is joining him for a few days of holiday.After a pleasant flight of under 8 hours, Alan arrived in a rather cold but bright Toronto. Cold as in 2°C. Since our last visit Toronto has built a rail link from the airport to Downtown and the transfer was easy, albeit took a bit of time.18th March: Woke up quite early because of the jet-lag. Put it this way, I heard the City Hall clock chimed 4! We had Canadian breakfast at Tim Hortons - grilled bagel with bacon and egg, hash brown and coffee. We like to eat local as you know. Hamish just had a bagel with cream cheese. It did the job of filling our bellies. ... read more

Geo: 43.6485, -79.3854Our departure city is Toronto. We left around 11 am. The roads were dry and good. We went through customs in Sarnia with no delays. We arrived in Toronto at 2:30 and checked into the Comfort Inn. After resting for a bit we headed to downtown Toronto for some dinner. We were lucky to be able to locate a neighborhood Polish restaurant called Kovalsky''s. It was a great choice. The food was delicious! Later this evening we will be catching a shuttle from our hotel to the airport. Our direct flight to Hong Kong departs at 1:20 am.... read more

I woke up in the morning to the strong smell of weed, this was something I thought that I could smell throughout the night as well. Alex told me that he and Grant had purchased some the previous evening and that I should go and deliver this to him. I went up to Grant's room and he wanted nothing to do with it and tried to flush it down the toilet however, on the first attempt it came straight back up and he had to cover it in toilet paper for it to go down! It also turned out that Grant had paid another $15 to an uber taxi which had already been paid for, the taxi driver probably couldn't believe his luck! No-one really had much nice things to say about the club that they ... read more

A la recherche d'un autre moyen de transport que le bus, nous tentons notre chance sur Amigo Express, un site de covoiturage canadien. Nous faisons la connaissance de Jérémi avec qui nous faisons la route vers Toronto en mini-van un peu rouillé, spacieux et très confortable. Au fil des conversations avec Jérémi, nous nous apercevons très vite que nous sommes dans le même état d'esprit de voyage. Jérémi fait une pause dans ses études d'ingénieur pour un road-trip de 3 mois à travers le continent nord-américain et Amérique centrale. Personne n'a d'impératif, on décide de prendre notre temps et de faire une pause à Kingston. Petite ville balnéaire plutôt appréciée des retraités, des étudiants et surtout des écureuils (comme partout au Canada semblerait-il) ! On reprend la route et c'est naturellement que nous commençons à programmer ... read more