Showing posts with label Toronto Airport. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Toronto Airport. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Pearson Airport Jurassic Dinosaurs

0 comments Posted by car at 7:23 PM

Recently I have been getting lost in the terminals of Toronto's Pearson Airport. One time I got so lost I ended back in the days of the dinosaurs. A big raptor was trying to get a small fry. I wasn't deluded, the dinosaurs were on loan from the Royal Ontario Museum which provided skeleton casts of Jurassic beasts Allosaurus (the big one) and Othnielia (the small herbivore known as lunch meat).
I think that the dinosaurs were real, they had been trapped in the terminal for millions of years trying to find where they are supposed to go - and they forgot where they had parked their car in the damn parking garage (I would hate to see that parking bill). Sheeze, they don't make it easy to find your way around, thank goodness that the staff are trained to spot confused faces and are quick to offer help. 

 

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Sunday, April 11, 2010

Toronto International Airport - watching the planes

0 comments Posted by car at 12:28 PM


Many people are fascinated with the large jet planes that take us around the world on exotic journeys and vacations and we are lucky to have the Toronto International Airport (Airport Code: YYZ) in our own backyard.


On streets and parking lots around the airport you can usually find plenty of cars and people, called Airplane Watchers or Plane Spotters, looking or photographing the planes land and takeoff. Airport Road has a number of places such as Wendys Restaurant (Airport at Orlando - just south of Derry Road) which are right under or near the flight path of approaching planes. Many locations along the street are no parking or no stopping to discourage people from Plane Spotting.



As the planes start to come in you can see them lined up waiting, lights on, for their turn to touch down with a puff of smoke as their tires hit the runway. Even if you are not a die hard plane fan it is still fun to watch the big planes take off or land just over your head.

 

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