Have at last arrived...well, several hours ago but we've just been trying to chill since coming off the place. Staying in the Days Inn Conference Centre Downtown, 16th floor. Looking out the back onto other apartment buildings.
Flight was...well, as flights are. Interesting bit started with an announcement over the cabin tannoy: "For those of you on the right of the aircraft, if you look out the windows you'll see a bunch of icebergs." We were passing above 60 degrees, and the tip of Greenland. Got some good pics of the coats, glaciers and 'bergs. Might post some of them later.
Bus trip into town wasn't too bad, pretty uneventful to be honest. Drove past the tourist traps - Rogers Center, CN Tower, etc. Lake Ontario looked a little choppy, but inviting. Saw a barque berthed on the front as we passed a gap - white hull, multi-masted, olde-stylee. Driver went out of his way to drop us off at the hotel 'cos we weren't actually on his route.
Hotel got a little problematic 'cos our room wasn't ready when we arrived. So we dropped off the luggae and wandered around part of the Eaton Centre for a while. Rather large and rather confusing, trying to find your way around. Was looking for a phone charger adaptor, to allow a large-barrel Nokia 6600 charger to be used in a narrow-barreled Nokia N70. No such luck - either have to buy a narrow-barrel charger or just swap the SIMs around as needed.
Got back to the hotel, got checked in and Mary got a message from someone that she corresponds with on a 'net board. Mary has phoned Wendy (who has asked us out to dinner) so we're just waiting for a callback to say when we're going to meet, though I do not know if it'll be tonight. Been going since...well, didn't sleep the night of 10-11 September, so been going for a long time. Running on adrenaline which I guess will run out shortly, given the amount of (corrected) typos I'm making. Think we'll give it until maybe 2100 local time (0200 UK) and then crash.
Gotta go now. CU all later
Flight was...well, as flights are. Interesting bit started with an announcement over the cabin tannoy: "For those of you on the right of the aircraft, if you look out the windows you'll see a bunch of icebergs." We were passing above 60 degrees, and the tip of Greenland. Got some good pics of the coats, glaciers and 'bergs. Might post some of them later.
Bus trip into town wasn't too bad, pretty uneventful to be honest. Drove past the tourist traps - Rogers Center, CN Tower, etc. Lake Ontario looked a little choppy, but inviting. Saw a barque berthed on the front as we passed a gap - white hull, multi-masted, olde-stylee. Driver went out of his way to drop us off at the hotel 'cos we weren't actually on his route.
Hotel got a little problematic 'cos our room wasn't ready when we arrived. So we dropped off the luggae and wandered around part of the Eaton Centre for a while. Rather large and rather confusing, trying to find your way around. Was looking for a phone charger adaptor, to allow a large-barrel Nokia 6600 charger to be used in a narrow-barreled Nokia N70. No such luck - either have to buy a narrow-barrel charger or just swap the SIMs around as needed.
Got back to the hotel, got checked in and Mary got a message from someone that she corresponds with on a 'net board. Mary has phoned Wendy (who has asked us out to dinner) so we're just waiting for a callback to say when we're going to meet, though I do not know if it'll be tonight. Been going since...well, didn't sleep the night of 10-11 September, so been going for a long time. Running on adrenaline which I guess will run out shortly, given the amount of (corrected) typos I'm making. Think we'll give it until maybe 2100 local time (0200 UK) and then crash.
Gotta go now. CU all later
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