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Day 12 – 15: Niagara Falls – “Look! That’s where Lois Lane threw herself in the river!”By Lee

We ship out of Toronto and head south to Niagara Falls by train. After availing of the very last of our weekly transit cards’ usage, we navigate around the high ceiling halls and winding corridors of Unity Station and wait for boarding.

It’s here I gut my Lonely Planet Guide to Canada. Excising vast reams of information, reducing the tome down to merely contain references to Niagara and the last stop on our Canadian sojourn, Vancouver, the book is no longer as impressive in girth or in weight. I’m sure other items I’m carting around the world will experience similar fates.

We board and, once again due to some satellite hiccups, wifi is available for free so I write and catch up on what’s going on in Internet-land. From the backlog of articles I earmark for future reading it’s obvious the place has been getting on along without me quite nicely.

Two hours later and the train slows and deposits us in sunny Niagara Falls.

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Day 6 – 11: Toronto – “Go Blue Jays!”By Lee

If Montréal comes across as a city with the vibe and culture of a different continent, Toronto follows suit as a location suffering from a similar geographical identity crisis.
While Canadians will often go to great lengths to assert the differences between their great nation and their closest neighbour down south, you can’t help but feel [...]

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Day 2 – 5 : Montréal – “Parlez-vous free wifi?”By Lee

We wake and check email. Things are looking up in the writing world as I receive an interesting offer for ongoing writing work with favourable terms. I decide to mail the guy back after I’ve soaked in some of Montréal. After all, the trip comes first — securing employment over the three months while away [...]

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Day 1: London; Montréal – “When are you getting married?”By Lee

After an uneasy night’s sleep – partially thanks to the stress of the big trip literally only hours away but also due to a neighbour’s house alarm wailing through-out the night – we get up early and finish off the remainder of the frantic last-minute tasks. Breakfast being first on the agenda.

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