Trains on the Brain Savour the journey & travel by train
Category “Canada”
Strangers on a Via Rail Canadian Train
Day two of my Trans Canadian rail trip with Via Rail en route on Edmonton. 6.15am, I’m woken by a freight train which seems so impossibly long that I half wonder if I dreamt it. This and jetlag has me awake far earlier than the ‘gentlemanly hours’ I’m used to, but not quite early enough [...]
Leaving Toronto on Board Via Rail’s Canadian Train
A whirlwind day of sightseeing, socialising and Mexican food in Toronto comes to an end. I say my farewells to wonderful hosts nearafar, boomergirl50 and adventureista as we step off the streetcar and suddenly I’m alone again, outside the Fairmont Royal York blinded by the rocket lolly proportions of the illuminated CN Tower, cases in [...]
Gaspé to Montreal by Night Train
Freelance journalist Anne Kostalas is fascinated by Canadians. She emigrated from Newcastle to Montreal two years ago and blogs about everything, from their excessive consumption of corn on the cob to the dangers of having a massage when you don’t speak French, in Dear England, Love Canada. Here she writes of taking the night train [...]
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