They didn’t show a movie in the “Italian Cinema, Literature and Society” lecture this Tuesday, so I decided to attend instead the lecture “Transport Geography” by Dr. Antonio Páez. Only little problem: Dr. Páez is teaching at the McMaster University in Hamilton, some 90 kilometres to the west. So I bought a Presto Card, entered the green Go Bus (in every direction you have to use another bus operator with another fare system…) and wanted to go to Hamilton. It was a trip on oversized highways through oversized industrial parks, business parks and residential areas. But there was still too much traffic for the 8 lanes: the bus got stuck in traffic jam soon after the departure. Instead of the scheduled one and half hours it took me two and a half hours to get to the McMaster campus. Too late for the lecture, all doors closed. No chance to get to know Antonio Páez, but a nice possibility to walk across the beautiful campus, to shop in the bookstore and to admire the cycling-friendly infrastructure.
This here is great and can be an example also for universities in Germany!
The way back to York was much faster, but still boring (it's great to have so much time to read because you don’t have to look out of the window…). The only beautiful buildings between Hamilton and North York are these two towers near Square One in Mississauga:
Falls du es noch nicht gehört hast: der linke Turm von Mississauga heißt Marilyn. Dreimal darfst du raten wieso ^^ Der rechte hat nen Männernamen, hab ich aber vergessen :/ Viel Spaß weiterhin! :)
AntwortenLöschenhaha, hatte ich noch nicht gehört, witzig :) Der andere heißt anscheinend "Monroe Mate"
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