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I don’t know how it happened but we are running 37 minutes late!

I don’t know how it happened but we are running 37 minutes late!

Is the announcement made by the train manager as we pull into Kingston on our mammoth train jouney between Quebec City and Toronto. As we are going to spend most of the days in our bums we decide to walk to the train station,  the streets are quiet at this time in the morning and its downhill all the way its a far easier walk than on our arrival. We board the train and are soon speeding our way through…

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Queues De Castor

Queues De Castor

An early start finds us heading to Quebec City on the VIA Rail. The 3hrs passes quickly as we watch the Canadian scenery pass by, and are served breakfast, a first for me on a train. Google tells us that the walk to our hotel is a 20 minute, mostly flat stroll. As we check in, having lugged our cases up hills steeper than any at Mount Royal, our receptionist simply laughs ‘yeah right’ as we tell her this. It…

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