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YouTubeAfter thirteen hours and four movies I landed in Toronto last night. Getting through immigration and picking up my bag went really smoothly as did finding the shuttle to my hotel. Turns out that my hotel was in the middle of nowhere – it’s at the intersection of two highways with a couple of strip malls and another hotel. I was incredibly parched and ended up having to buy water from the vending machine at $2 for a bottle – freaking expensive, but not as bad as Pearson Airport.
I didn’t sleep so well despite not really sleeping on the airplane, but did manage to get about 4-5 hours before waking up at 3:30am. Took the shuttle to the airport at 7, checked in and made a beeline to starbucks for some much needed java. Tried to get online, but Pearson airport charges travelers $10 to use wifi! Really shouldn’t that be a basic amenity of the airport – Incheon has free wifi as does Bangkok (as far as my memory serves). Needless to say I didn’t pay for that and just watched another movie (Rocka Rolla – pretty good). I also wanted to buy water, but the damn stores at the airport were charging $2.7 for a bottle of water. Way to gouge people.
Anyhow I got on the plane to Ottawa and the flight was really fast – only 40 minutes. landed picked up my bag and got my rental car strait away. Got myself a Hyundai Accent – will take a picture later – with a GPS. I hadn’t ever used a gps before but figured it would be useful since I don’t know where anything in Ottawa is. It’s been great, found the university residence, a shopping mall all without a problem. The only thing that’s driving me nuts is that the GPS uses miles and not kilometres – don’t they know that Canada moved to the metric system 30 years ago?
Overall so far the city is very pretty and tomorrow after I talk to the real estate agent I’ve arranged to meet I’ll take some pictures and drive around. I did try to buy a prepaid sim card for my phone but it won’t work. Maybe my phone is locked – oh well I don’t really need it except to make about 3 calls.
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