Your advanced age and some medical problems may be preventing you from purchasing affordable travel insurance. Gas prices are increasing. Besides, you cannot stay away from home very long because of the prohibitive cost of kennelling Rover the dog and Puss the cat. Also, you have a dental check-up scheduled only three days from now. Foreign air travel is out of the question because your passport has expired.
I have the solution for your dilemma, your thirst to travel, your “impossible dream,” your desire to be footloose and fancy (almost free) for foreign travel. Head west geriatric man, old lady! With only an overnight stay and 1,200 km of four-lane driving, you can visit three foreign countries and two continents: Africa’s Alexandria, Egypt, and Europe’s London England on Thames, and Paris, France on the Seine.
You can cruise the 401 at 100 kph. No customs and immigration delays. No air travel hassles. No ferry crossings. No language barriers (but personally I’ve found my wife’s British accent and strange vocabulary to be quite a challenge at times).
In our London and Paris, recently you’re more likely to hear more Ukrainian than British and French, and find pierogi served with fried onions and smetana, and valenki or halushka, rather than fish n’ chips served in newspaper and crusty baguettes hot out of the oven.
If the European name-sake destinations I recommended are beyond your financial and time constraints, make our Alexandria your destination. Egypt’s Alexandria’s most commonly spoken tongues are Arabic, Chinese, Hindi and Mandarin; many of our local Alexandrian residents speak with a Scottish accent, devour great quantities of dishes called “Gaetan’s poutine” and haggis, and throw cabers about. The Garry River is its tiny substitute for the Nile.
The 45 or so kilometres drive from Cornwall can be done in less than an hour, unless there are Deere on the 138, or if there’s a 240-car freight train making its way across 43 in Monckland. (Yes, it should be spelled with a ‘c‘. Why? Because it was named after Sir Charles Stanley, Viscount Monck, who served as the first Governor General of Canada in 1861.)
C’mon! Give some of my suggested travel itineraries a try. Enjoy! And send me a post card!
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