First trip out of Canton

We planned to leave by 4 pm on 11th June to Toronto, Canada and to our credit, did manage to leave by 4.30 PM. I had removed all the shopping bags, sandwich wrappers, paper cups, used tissues and empty bottles from the MPV and had made space for the passengers and luggage. It was our first tour after arriving here and since we believed that we can easily manage with bread, vegetables, fruits and juice which would be available in plenty everywhere, and since we had to cross the Canada border, did not carry any food stuff. We reached the Windsor bridge an hour later and passed through the international border getting another stamp on our passports.



The roads and the landscape on the Canadian side were even better and we reached the city of London enjoying the drive on the smooth road, having an eyeful of the green fields that stretched on both sides with the beautiful but lonely farm houses dotting them.



While we were excited by the prospect of seeing and being in places which we had only heard and never imagined that we would be visiting one day, Bhanu and Vishwa, for whom neither Toronto nor Nayagara were new, were excited by the prospect of having dinner in “Saravana” the Chennai based Indian restaurant in Toronto and were lovingly eating the words “Pongal, Avial and Masala dosa” as appetizers. Bhanu repeatedly called the hotel to confirm their business hours and also found that they had shifted to Mississauga, about twenty five kilometers before Toronto and we arrived in front of the hotel at 9 PM, much before their closing time of 10 PM.

As far as I was concerned “Saravana” was disappointing, one of the items (I do not remember what it was) even being stale. Even after bringing it to the notice of the hotel management there was not even a word of apology and I wondered at their indifference and the hunger for Indian food amongst the Indian community living there, which might have made them so.

We checked into the Metropoliton Hotel in Toronto at 11 PM , where the night appeared to be just beginning but I was too sleepy to go around and see things.