Ticket to ride

I made my way from Montreal to New York by taking an epic train journey of over 11 hours.  It is apparently one of the 10 best train journeys in the world – and it certainly goes through some spectacular scenery, including passing some great lakes.  One of the things that makes the journey so long is crossing the border – here border control come onto the train and go through checking, with us “foreigners” having to go off to the buffet car to fill in more forms!   The stop was about an hour or so.

During the journey there was meant to be wi-fi available, but it (a) wasn’t available in Canada, (b) very patchy in the US and (c) didn’t seem to make it out of the buffet car so wasn’t really available to be used (hence the late delivery of this blog!).  Therefore had chance to get a long way through my book and to catch up on some podcasts I had downloaded.

 

The speed of the train was quite variable – as well as the long stop at the border there was another long stop a couple of hours from the end, and several occasions where the train travelled quite slowly.  Doubtless there are quicker ways to get between the two cities, but hey – I’m on holiday – I’ve got the time!