The conference finished yesterday. However, rather than going straight home, I am going to visit a colleague at Sherbrooke University. When I check with him whether he would be around, he said "yes, and it's only a 9 hour drive from Waterloo!" Interesting use of the word "only", there.
It would have been reasonable to fly from Toronto to Montreal, with a connecting bus trip at either end, but I decided to take the train instead (still needing two bus trips), and to split the journey over two days.
Today was Waterloo to Montreal: a one and a half hour bus trip, and then a five and a half hour train trip. Well, first a 20 minute taxi ride from the hotel to the bus pickup point, in an enormous mall. The ticket said the pickup point was "North of Ye's Sushi restaurant". I found Ye's Sushi restaurant, and worked out which direction was north. There was a local bus terminal there, but no sign for my long distance bus company. I loitered. A little while after the schedule arrival time, a bus appeared, and stopped to the west of Ye's Sushi restaurant. I scuttled over, checked it was the right bus, got my luggage loaded, and got on.
Close to arrival, I got to see the Toronto CN tower out the bus window.
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| View from the bus window: my restricted view meant I didn't get the very top, and got a bit of window reflection, too. |
We arrived on time in central Toronto, and the stop there was very close to the train station. I went in, checked the train was on time, then sat and had a coffee until it arrived. The trip was very smooth, and a lot more pictaresque than a flight would have been.
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| View from the train window: Lake Ontario |
I'd booked a hotel close to the rail station and Sherbrooke bus departure point, for convenience tomorrow.
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| View from the hotel window |
Now off for a bit of a walk, after all that sitting, and then to find something to eat.
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