The big attraction Churchill holds for visitors, of course, is the polar bears. For a couple of months, beginning sometime in October, the town is full of people from all over the world and they are here for the bears. They — the bears — are found all over the general area, waiting for Hudson…
To use an apt Hawaiian-pidgin expression, it’s freeze-ass cold in Churchill on my second day, with temperatures in the 20s and a vicious wind blowing in off of Hudson Bay. Weather reports say snow is on the way, but there is none on the ground now and the dozen visitors who have come for a…
Was the visit to Churchill, Manitoba, worth a full week, including a total of four nights on the train, and a pretty fair chunk of change? Absolutely! It was an incredible experience and I couldn’t recommend it more enthusiastically. The ride up and back on VIA Rail was very relaxed and enjoyable. I had my…
For years, I’ve had a dozen or so of the world’s more interesting or exotic train trips on my bucket list. So far I’ve managed to cross off several, marking them “done”. These include the Glacier Express and the Bernina Express in Switzerland, the two trans-continental trains in Australia, the Indian Pacific and the Ghan,…