Jackie'S B&B
Travel Blogs from Toronto
Going Home
... caught the RER and got to Charles DeGaulle with plenty of time. I have yet to miss a flight.
Once on board the plane I was getting ready to hunker down for a nice long eight hour flight when this lady next to me begged to have her son sit next to the window. What was I going to do say? No. I mean, it was more than obvious the kid was going to have more fun sitting at the window then I ever would. It was a no brainer. The lady was ...
Fallin'
... I went into downtown Toronto and despite it still being October, it was windy and freezing - a huge change from the Miami heat. It was so cold that I had to buy a jacket as I didn't have one with me.
The first day, I went on an organized tour to Niagara Falls. It was mostly old Australians, Americans and English on the tour, with a few young people. The Falls themselves are breathtaking and very beautiful – you ...
Are We Crazy?
... taking trains (yes trains!) around the vast expanse of Australia. Now, we are not neophyte travellers, but most of our travel up to now has been to the Caribbean/Mexico/Central America, as well as a couple of trips to Greece and a month in Portugal last year. On top of that, most of our trips until the last couple of years had been of the one-week getaway variety--the longest we have been away ...
Back TO the pivot point
... hiking pants x 2, hiking shoes, hiking socks, gloves, multitemperate upper body wear. all there. bjork, here i come! on a side note, I saw my plane approaching as I was on the 427 southbound headed to pearson. quickest check in ever, and easy to the gate, which coincidentally is in the same lounge that I used to wait in for my air transat ireland flights, as well as my taglit flight *gasp* 7 years ago. ...
Time for redemption
... in Asia and Europe but still largely absent from North America. My friend Ivan, one of my roommates from studying in Guadalajara 5 years ago, is joining me in Indonesia, and bought a ticket from Yogyakarta to Bali on Garuda Indonesia. So the whole plan, flight-wise, becomes:
Toronto-(San Francisco) on Air Canada
(San Francisco)-Seoul on Asiana Airlines
Seoul-Singapore on Singapore Airlines
Singapore-Yogyakarta on Indonesia AirAsia
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