On Monday, we packed up and headed for the airport to catch our plane to Edmonton (via Toronto, which felt a little odd!). The trip was uneventful, tho when we got to Toronto we had to walk what seemed like miles down little corridors to get to immigration. The good news is that they have a separate immigration desk for people making connections, so it went quickly. Also, they don't make you collect your bags and schlep them thru customs like they do in the US of A.
We got in shortly after 11 PM (local time; that's 1 AM body time) and took a taxi to our Airbnb apartment. At first arrival, it seemed rather disappointing, but there was nothing horribly wrong, so we went to bed.
The air feels different here. It's drier here, for one. It smells different, too, with a hint of smoke, from the wildfires in B.C., I expect.
Edmonton is not a compact city. There's a lot of it, and it goes on and on. But our place has decent bus connections (once you walk 8 blocks or so). Today we took it easy, and tried to go to the farmers' market (but it was closed). Then we rode the historic High Level Bridge streetcar to downtown.
The streetcar's route follows an old railway line that crosses the river far above the water (and anything else). It used to be that there were 3 tracks on the bridge, the railroad in the middle and the streetcars on either side. They barely fit, but apparently no streetcar ever fell off. Now it's just a single streetcar track in the middle. The motorman let me into his cabin to take this photo,
We wandered around downtown for a bit, then had an excellent lunch at Doan's Vietnamese Restaurant. Then we took the streetcar back, got some groceries at an organic market, and took the bus back to our place.
We got in shortly after 11 PM (local time; that's 1 AM body time) and took a taxi to our Airbnb apartment. At first arrival, it seemed rather disappointing, but there was nothing horribly wrong, so we went to bed.
The air feels different here. It's drier here, for one. It smells different, too, with a hint of smoke, from the wildfires in B.C., I expect.
Edmonton is not a compact city. There's a lot of it, and it goes on and on. But our place has decent bus connections (once you walk 8 blocks or so). Today we took it easy, and tried to go to the farmers' market (but it was closed). Then we rode the historic High Level Bridge streetcar to downtown.
The streetcar's route follows an old railway line that crosses the river far above the water (and anything else). It used to be that there were 3 tracks on the bridge, the railroad in the middle and the streetcars on either side. They barely fit, but apparently no streetcar ever fell off. Now it's just a single streetcar track in the middle. The motorman let me into his cabin to take this photo,
We wandered around downtown for a bit, then had an excellent lunch at Doan's Vietnamese Restaurant. Then we took the streetcar back, got some groceries at an organic market, and took the bus back to our place.
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