VIA

VIA is the railway company that runs the train service from Montréal to Ottawa. They also offered wireless service in the train, and the rail attendant broadcasted over the intercom that it was free today. But it doesn’t work. I asked her and she said she was sooooo sorry but that there where technical difficulties. Bummer.

I’m back in Canada after a long travel day. First by car from Nijmegen to the airport of D¸sseldorf in Germany where I took a flight to Paris. In Paris there were 5 flights leaving all at the same time and all passengers’ luggage had to be rechecked so I was still in that line when my plane was supposed to leave. Since I was surrounded by people who also needed to be on that flight I figured that they would wait for us. And they did. It turned out that the engine was broken too so the plane wasn’t ready to take-off yet after they had fixed it. So we took of almost one hour late. After an enjoyable flight (I had a nice girl sitting next to me and we had a very pleasant conversation) we arrived late in a Montréal without snow. My bags were late but going through immigration went fast and I managed to just get my train to Ottawa to celebrate Christmas with my family in law.

Christmas dinner, lovely presents and now I’m toast and really need to go to bed.