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Perfect timing...not even a week after my post in praise of cruising went up, this informative article appeared. While it doesn't inspire me to completely boycott cruise lines, it definitely is food for thought. The stubborn optimist in me wants to think that they'll be forced to do something about their polluting engines in the near future. And I still stand by my advice to step off the ship and spend some money in the local economy.
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Looking at the calendar, I can see it's been about almost a month since the coronavirus pandemic started directly affecting Germany and I suddenly found myself having to stay home from work. This has of course given me a lot more time for reflecting on past journeys and blogging about them, as my recent flurry of posts about Canada may have indicated.
Now that I'm done reliving my Canadian experiences, I'm now turning to the other country that borders the US, Mexico, which I think is an overlooked and misunderstood travel destination. Too many people on my side of the border think the whole country is ruled by drug cartels. While that may be true of most of the border states, much of the rest of the country is a world away from that. I first visited there during the first week of October 2015 by way of an equally, I believe, misunderstood means.
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And finally, after almost a whole week in Ontario, mostly spent in the city of Toronto, the trip was almost over and the day had arrived for my flight out. But the trip wasn't over yet, and there were a couple more interesting things left to do before flying home.
Read more: Ontario 2017 Part 6 - Pensinsula Ridge, Niagara Falls, Going Home
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September 10, 2017 was the day I set aside for TIFF, the Toronto International Film Festival. Thursday I had acquired a magazine-size program which contained all the schedules and film descriptions, and by now I'd settled on four films I thought looked interesting. There was one ticket office where I had to buy my tickets from, and from there I had to head to the various locations where the films were actually being shown. After the previous day's Spartan Beast obstacle race, being able to spend several hours sitting was a welcome break from the usual constant walking of trips like this.
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