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-   -   Canada - it's a big country. (https://britishexpats.com/forum/maple-leaf-98/canada-its-big-country-845542/)

caretaker Oct 21st 2014 10:53 pm
Re: Canada - it's a big country.
 
Originally Posted by Souvy (Post 11446070)
Wimbledon, actually. It's a nice place, which is just as well. I've been confined to my room since Sunday. This week has been a write-off on the work front. Quite how I will make it home to Canada tomorrow, I do not know. I had a cup of coffee just now. It would have been easier to just chuck it down the bog in the first place and cut out the middleman.
Aren't the immigration cops taking everyone's temperature as they get into the airport? Maybe you can't come back. I've had a steadily worsening cold since Sunday but had to work yesterday anyway, (two shows last night so had to clean both bars), and it was terrible.:( I'll have to cancel tomorrow's Dr appt. Glad I'm at home and not in a hotel so I sympathise with you!

Tirytory Oct 22nd 2014 2:46 am
Re: Canada - it's a big country.
 
Oh bless...phone call to the doctors or maybe the pharmacist (hopefully) can give you an anti-emetic and some Imodium... Should ease the trip...

Oakvillian Oct 22nd 2014 3:36 am
Re: Canada - it's a big country.
 
Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 11445304)
When we first arrived in North America in 1977 we flew London-JFK on the original no frills airline Laker Air (50 quid one way fair). We had bought an Amtrak rail-pass in the UK for even less than that and traveled all the way to LA via New Orleans by train.

I've always been pleased we did that because we immediately clued in to the vastness of the US.

Canada of course is even bigger.
That must have been on one of the first Laker flights - the Skytrain only started up in Sept '77. You may even have had the privilege of being piloted by my father-in-law, who flew that route many times (SWMBO still has an old pencil case with "I'm a Laker Liker" stickers all over it...). It's how come he ended up in Canada, actually - in the process of trying to cadge a lift home from the wrong side of the Atlantic when Laker collapsed in '82, he found himself being interviewed for a job with ICAO in Montreal.

Interesting, too, to note that by the time I did a similar trip in '86 (Virgin to Newark, then Greyhound to San Francisco via Chicago & Salt Lake City) the standby fare LGW to EWR was £99. That's a significantly below-inflation price rise, considering the inflation rates in the late 70s and early 80s.

Souvy Oct 24th 2014 5:00 am
Re: Canada - it's a big country.
 
Originally Posted by caretaker (Post 11446175)
Aren't the immigration cops taking everyone's temperature as they get into the airport? Maybe you can't come back. I've had a steadily worsening cold since Sunday but had to work yesterday anyway, (two shows last night so had to clean both bars), and it was terrible.:( I'll have to cancel tomorrow's Dr appt. Glad I'm at home and not in a hotel so I sympathise with you!
I made it back in one piece. The bug seemed to have gone, apart from the exhaustion (and I have cold).

Didn't get checked at Heathrow at all. The guy at Ottawa asked me if I'd been to West Africa recently or been in contact with people that had. That's a no. I did lie a bit when he asked me if I was feeling ill at all. Let's face it, everyone looks like crap after an 8-hour flight.

bats Oct 24th 2014 5:01 am
Re: Canada - it's a big country.
 
Originally Posted by Souvy (Post 11449373)
I made it back in one piece. The bug seemed to have gone, apart from the exhaustion (and I have cold).
G
Didn't get checked at Heathrow at all. The guy at Ottawa asked me if I'd been to West Africa recently or been in contact with people that had. That's a no. I did lie a bit when he asked me if I was feeling ill at all. Let's face it, everyone looks like crap after an 8-hour flight.
Glad to hear you are home and better. Rest up!

rivingtonpike Oct 24th 2014 12:40 pm
Re: Canada - it's a big country.
 
Welcome home!

MillieF Oct 24th 2014 10:35 pm
Re: Canada - it's a big country.
 
Originally Posted by rivingtonpike (Post 11449775)
Welcome home!
Rest and recuperate:thumbup: we miss you when you're gone, we need you back in your usual form quickly please....

Novocastrian Oct 25th 2014 4:25 am
Re: Canada - it's a big country.
 
Originally Posted by Oakvillian (Post 11446477)
That must have been on one of the first Laker flights - the Skytrain only started up in Sept '77. You may even have had the privilege of being piloted by my father-in-law, who flew that route many times (SWMBO still has an old pencil case with "I'm a Laker Liker" stickers all over it...).
I missed this post. Yes, Laker had just started up then There was lots of publicity about the new service, which is how I knew of it in those long ago pre-internet days. I can't recall the exact date but it would have been in September because I remember that my post-doc contract in Cambridge ended on Sept 1st 1977.


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