You know by now that I’m a big fan of VIA Rail in Canada. I’ve racked up a lot of miles with them and every trip has been worth taking. The big draw, of course, is their famous train, the Canadian, the transcontinental beauty operating between Toronto and Vancouver. (I’ll be making that trip again…
I have a real soft spot for old hotels … as long as they have been kept up reasonably well, of course. The Waldorf Astoria in New York is close to the top of that list, but you don’t have to pay $500-$600 a night to enjoy the classic look and feel of an earlier…
My itinerary calls for me to double back to the east with a three-hour ride to Quebec City and early next morning finds me in the Montreal station gliding down a long escalator from the main hall to a lower-level platform where my train is already waiting. We depart precisely on time and within minutes…