{"id":7514,"date":"2018-11-01T21:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T01:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=7514"},"modified":"2018-12-18T11:12:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T16:12:27","slug":"a-slow-start-to-our-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=7514","title":{"rendered":"A Slow Start To Our Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we travelled all the way from London to a hotel near Toronto airport.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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I guess I have lost a bit of my \u201ctravel savvy\u201d 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 \u201cSandman Hotel\u201d written on the side of the shuttle bus & told Catherine \u201cthat\u2019s the one for us!\u201d<\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

Back on the shuttle bus to the airport to wait for the \u201cother\u201d shuttle bus to take us to the right hotel. That was almost two hours wasted.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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