Michael's Meanderings

Read for a while, then at 10:10 left the hostel and walked to the taxi rank near the Notre-Dame Basilica ad got a taxi to the airport. The 20minutes journey has a flat rate of 28$ and I arrived at 10:40. Found the KLM Self Service kiosks and printed my boarding cards, boarding doesn't start until 17:25 so I expect a few hours before i can check my baggage. (None of the KLM counters are currently manned!)

Sat reading an ebook for a while (found a power point) until 14:30 when I used up my last 10$ bill for a BK whopper meal. Then checked my bag (without queuing) and then went through security, for which queuing was required.
Looked for cigarettes for D without any luck, then to gate B57 where I found a power socket to use until we had to board the plane. Read until 18:00 when we boarded flight KL0672, took off about half an hour later. Served dinner soon after take off, I had a chicken and rice concoction. Saw "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" on the multimedia center, managed just over and hour of sleep, then breakfast was served. Landed at Amsterdam 00:42/6:42.

Bought duty free (EU duty paid) whiskey and cigs. Plugged laptop into mains at Internet cafe and read ebook for awhile. Then to gate to wait to board flight VG0221 to London. Took off at 11:10 and landed 11:50 / 10:50 at City Airport. Got through Passport control and collected my bag then out to the DLR station by 11:25 and then to London Bridge, where I was able to get the 12:00 south arriving home just after 13:00. I tumbled into bed and slept to 19:45!

Thursday morning up at 7:00 off to Tim Hortons for my last breakfast in Canada (at least this year). A breakfast sandwich, with sausage pattie, egg and cheese, with coffee and toasted bagel with cream cheese.

I then went looking for the taxi rank, which I found so I can get a taxi to the airport, i find it very strnge that there are no train or bus links from the airport to the city.

Finished packing and stripped bed.

I'll be leaving in the next hour or so, and so this will be my last post until I get back to the UK!

So Tuesday morning up at the crack of dawn, 4:45 and then off to the station to catch the first train of the day, the 5:26 to London Bridge. Arrived in London only 50 minutes later then down to the tube station and the Jubilee line to X then change to the DLR for City Airport.

Arriving at 6:50 I was too early to check my luggage but was able to use a kiosk to print out both my tickets to Amsterdam and then to Montreal. I used up half an hour playing sudoku then 2 hours before flight VG0218 was due to take off checked my new back pack, through to Montreal, then through security in 10 minutes! I don't know if that was due to the airport size, or the early morning.

City Airport has free wifi so I was able to to upload this before boarding.