So my dear partner has always talked about taking the train across Canada
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So my dear partner has always talked about taking the train across Canada.
Her birthday is this month and I just booked Vancouver > Toronto > Montreal > Halifax on VIA Rail in June.
It'll be the farthest east I've been in Canada, and she's going to be thrilled to visit the east coast again. I can't wait to share this journey with her!
(She's not on the fediverse so sharing this is safe hehe)
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So my dear partner has always talked about taking the train across Canada.
Her birthday is this month and I just booked Vancouver > Toronto > Montreal > Halifax on VIA Rail in June.
It'll be the farthest east I've been in Canada, and she's going to be thrilled to visit the east coast again. I can't wait to share this journey with her!
(She's not on the fediverse so sharing this is safe hehe)
@chad off peak, a normal bedroom gives you access to the Park car in the back. During peak, only Prestige has access to Park. (With some exceptions for short periods). You used to be able to take train to Sydney and transfer to ferry to NFLD there. (Took that train in 1984 from Sydney to Halifax).
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@chad off peak, a normal bedroom gives you access to the Park car in the back. During peak, only Prestige has access to Park. (With some exceptions for short periods). You used to be able to take train to Sydney and transfer to ferry to NFLD there. (Took that train in 1984 from Sydney to Halifax).
@jfmezei Yeah we didn't book prestige. That's double what we could afford from Van to Toronto. We'll fly to YVR to catch the train through the Rockies and fly back from either NS or NFLD.
But we might just rent a car in Halifax so we can have the flexibility - trip is in its very early days of planning and I'm going to leave that part up to her what she wants to do.
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@jfmezei Yeah we didn't book prestige. That's double what we could afford from Van to Toronto. We'll fly to YVR to catch the train through the Rockies and fly back from either NS or NFLD.
But we might just rent a car in Halifax so we can have the flexibility - trip is in its very early days of planning and I'm going to leave that part up to her what she wants to do.
@chad On your way to Sydney to catch ferry to NFLD, you can do clockwise tour of Cape Breton Highlands national park (aka Cabot trail).
https://parks.canada.ca/pn-np/ns/cbreton
On the way down to Sydney, you can stop at the Alexander Graham Bell museum (he invented something older generations used , called "the telephone".)
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@jfmezei Yeah we didn't book prestige. That's double what we could afford from Van to Toronto. We'll fly to YVR to catch the train through the Rockies and fly back from either NS or NFLD.
But we might just rent a car in Halifax so we can have the flexibility - trip is in its very early days of planning and I'm going to leave that part up to her what she wants to do.
@chad Side trip from Sydney is the Fortress of Louisbourg National park. Restaurantion inside buildings is extremely well done as are the interpretion/explanation of the functiosn of the fortress. Good part of history of Canada that the english side of Canada never learns at school.
