Day Two (Thursday): West and North On the trip out of Toronto and into the city suburbs (It’s a big city, with a population of nearly three million), there wasn’t a lot to see. Ontario has varied topography and we realized that looking out the window or even ascending to the observation car didn’t initially …
Crossing Canada by Train (1)
Day One: Leaving Toronto and Starting the Trip Last Monday evening, our Amtrak/VIA Rail Maple Leaf from New York to Toronto fell behind schedule by about fifty minutes. But with the engineer really moving us along, we made it into Toronto’s Union Station only five minutes late. We had worried about how we would entertain …
Aboard Amtrak’s Maple Leaf to Toronto
A Digital Post Card from Guy and Andrew Andrew has retired, as of last Friday. So we’re happy to report that the first thing we’re doing is taking a vacation. Amtrak and Canada’s VIA Rail offer the Maple Leaf service to Toronto, and we’re taking advantage of it. We’re traveling along the Hudson River Valley and the …
Vienna: A Third Memorial
Recognizing the Victims of Nazi Military Justice A third memorial which caught my interest is specifically different from the memorials described in the last post. This one, called The Memorial for the Victims of Nazi Military Justice, is by Olaf Nicolai, the German conceptual artist born in 1962 in Halle an der Saale. The memorial …
Vienna: Remembering the Holocaust
Two Memorials Honor the City’s Jewish Victims When I find a city or other travel destination that has special appeal for me, I “fall hard.” Certainly that has been the case with Vienna. It’s been more than three years since my last visit, and despite several blog posts, I’ve come to realize that my many …
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