2013 habe ich ein Semester lang in Kanada gewohnt und das Land mit der Bahn durchquert. Die Bahn-Abschnitte aus dem damaligen Blog werde ich noch übersetzen und hier ergänzen.
My last day in Halifax started with jogging to and through the Point
Pleasant Park, 186 acres of forest and beaches on the tip of the Halifax
peninsula. In the early morning, when there are just some people
jogging or walking their dogs; trees and ocean are hidden in the fog;
you hear ships but you can't see them - it is a nice experience to be
there. I also enjoyed the way back through the harbour, although it is a
bit scary to be jogging between these huge tower cranes and container
stacks.
After a last visit in the megastore - I still hate its air conditioning,
as much as I hate the air conditioning of the train I'm sitting on - I
had to leave Halifax. The adventure "crossing Canada by train" started
with a 3-locomotives-and-18-cars-train called "The Ocean". Thrice weekly
this train connects Halifax with Montréal. According to the time table
the train ride (1.346 km) takes 22 hours. At the moment we're still
standing in Rivière-du-Loup with an delay of 4 1/2 hours... Will be
difficult to catch my connecting train in Montréal, which leaves 4 hours
after the scheduled arrival of the Ocean...
But besies the fact that this train is awfully slow and I'm afraid that I
won't catch the Canadian this evening in Toronto, there are also good
news: there's free Wi-Fi available on the train, wuhuu! And it stopped
raining!! Yesterday evening the ongoing rain made it almost impossible
to take nice pictures out of the train window, now it would be possible
again - if the fu* train would leave now the ugly station of
Rivière-du-Loup after almost one hour of shunting and rumbling...
The pictures below show some impressions of the previous train ride
trough Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Quebec.
