{"id":4131,"date":"2014-05-12T01:52:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T23:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/?p=4131"},"modified":"2020-12-20T17:12:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T16:12:58","slug":"day-of-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/2014\/05\/12\/tag-des-aufbruchs\/","title":{"rendered":"Day of departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Flight with British Airways via London Heathrow to Vancouver<\/li>\n<li>Watch NHL match in local bar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After making all sorts of visits and preparations in the last week, things are now finally serious. I will especially remember the visit to my grandparents and the meal with my colleague on Saturday. Saying goodbye is not easy, but I have to go through it. After all, I want to take advantage of the unique opportunity after graduating last summer and doing community service.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oli and Niki accompany me to Zurich Airport. There I have to say goodbye to Niki with a heavy heart, she will meet me in Vancouver in just under four months. After the usual check-in procedure, the British Airways aircraft takes off for London Heathrow with a good half an hour delay. After a chaotic change and another security check, we reach our transatlantic flight. The jumbo jet flies directly to Vancouver via Greenland, where - thanks to the time difference - we land only an hour later. We arrived in Canada at seven o&#039;clock in the evening. We are pleasantly surprised by the warm temperatures of over 20 degrees. We take a taxi to the HI Hostel Central on Granville Street. It&#039;s the same hostel that I stayed in on my stopover four years ago after the Yukon-Alaska tour. Back then, together with Reto Gyger and my brother, we experienced unforgettable scenes =)<\/p>\n<p>Despite the growing tiredness, we still visit a bar, watch a game of the NHL playoffs on TV and treat ourselves to a Molson Canadien. Then we hop into bed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<h5>Highlights of the day<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Flight with British Airways via London Heathrow to Vancouver<\/li>\n<li>Watch NHL match in local bar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<p>After spending the last week making all sorts of visits and preparations, it&#039;s finally time to get serious. I&#039;ll especially remember the visit to my grandparents and the dinner with my colleague on Saturday. Saying goodbye isn&#039;t easy, considering I won&#039;t see some of these people for an entire year. But I have to go through with it; after all, I want to take advantage of this unique opportunity after finishing my studies last summer and completing my community service.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,30,80],"tags":[35,36,2193],"class_list":["post-4131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tagebuch","category-kanada","category-british-columbia","tag-flug","tag-vancouver","tag-british-columbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}