Today we travelled all the way from London to a hotel near Toronto airport.

Tomorrow morning we depart from Toronto and fly to Kathmandu, Nepal via Hong Kong. We have a mid-morning flight so we decided it would be best if we came into Toronto the day before instead of getting up in the middle of the night.

Our journey began on Via Rail from London to Toronto. While we were waiting for the train Catherine was busy sorting out all the last minute details of the trip.

I guess I have lost a bit of my “travel savvy” since I retired. This afternoon we caught a shuttle bus from Pearson Airport to our hotel only to discover that we had gone to the wrong location! Unfortunately I did not bother to ask the shuttle bus driver the address of the hotel. I saw “Sandman Hotel” written on the side of the shuttle bus & told Catherine “that’s the one for us!”

When we got to the hotel front desk we were told that we had no reservation there. The desk clerk looked at my reservation papers & politely informed us that our reservation was at the Sandman on Dixie Road – about 10km further away. Bummer!

Back on the shuttle bus to the airport to wait for the “other” shuttle bus to take us to the right hotel. That was almost two hours wasted.

Oh well, we finally got checked in to a very nice room. The hotel had a bar/lounge where a glass of wine, a large draft beer & a big plate of chicken wings helped us forget our little misadventure.

It will be a super long day tomorrow. Our flight from Toronto to Hong Kong is almost 16 hours. Then we have a 5 1/2 hour layover in Hong Kong before we board our (5 1/2 hour) flight to Kathmandu.

Thankfully we have a full day to ourselves in Kathmandu before we join up with the rest of our tour group. I think we will be sleeping in the first day there.

Cheers!