Start to Canada

August 23, 2025

And once again, our big summer tour is upon us. This time, we are heading to CANADA 🇨🇦.

For the next nearly three weeks, we will be driving through Eastern Canada.

Today, we are traveling to Toronto. For the first time in a long while, we decided to go for the 'train to flight' ticket 🫣 As expected, the journey got off to a rocky start: the first train was canceled - family shuttle emergency call and off to the next transfer station, fortunately, we managed to catch the ICE train. But we had planned three buffer connections anyway. So we arrived in Frankfurt very much in advance.

Frankfurt Terminal D - what can I say, this is what traveling felt like in the 1980s. Very thorough security check (I never had to separately put my charging cable in a box, I can't remember when I last had to take off my watch). Ancient body scanners, so everyone had to be patted down, old X-ray machines, every second backpack had to be manually checked. This made everything take forever. Well, in May I flew from Terminal A, where you're even allowed to take liquids with you again.

But if there was one thing we had, it was time. It would have been nice to do some shopping after the security check, but... Terminal D has exactly one shop! No wonder Frankfurt always ranks so poorly!

Off to Amsterdam. That's a great airport. Even in the far corner, there's still a restaurant, café, bakery, or burger joint...

And the famous clock:

From here on, everything went according to plan, very efficiently, and the flight with KLM was top-notch and uneventful. We landed on time and had a very short waiting time at immigration control. And then something curious happened... At immigration, an officer manually filled out a yellow paper slip with our data. This was practically the access control to the baggage area 🤣, just show it once there.

The luggage also made it, and then off we went to Canada. But wait! First, we had to hand in the yellow slip! We had just gotten used to it, and then after 15 minutes, we had to hand it over again. It felt somewhat like it was from another millennium 🤣

Searched for the hotel shuttle, found it, checked in, and that was the start.