Well, we’re back on our travels again! This one started with a rail trip from Ottawa to Montreal. This was the first time I had taken a train in Canada since I was banned (temporarily) from flying with Air Canada!
The journey was about 1 hour 45 minutes, reaching dizzying speeds of 160km/h (100 mph). It was a pleasant trip, they even gave you booze and food!
Lyn was happy!
From the station at Dorval airport we caught a shuttle for the 10 minute ride to the airport. Check in was a little slow due to “problem” customers ahead of us, but security was a breeze, sort of! Our hand baggage got selected for a deeper inspection. I think I now know why. I asked the guy what needed to be taken out of the bag, he said only laptops, tablets were ok. I suspect a tablet with a keyboard is classed as a laptop, and there was our problem. Talking of problems, we always live in fear of forgetting to pack something important. Today my fear was realised, I forgot the charger for my tablet laptop! Luckily Lyn has the same one, hopefully she didn’t forget hers!
We’ve got about an hour to wait, then an 11 hour flight to Doha in Qatar, a couple of hours there, then off for 6.5 hours to Bangkok, Thailand for our first stop, arriving at 0610 in the morning!!
That’s enough for day one, as tomorrow is primarily travelling there may not be a blog, I’ll see how it goes.