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Back To Last Call OnlineApril 22, 2010
The latest installment from my weekly Guelph Mercury column…
The volcanic eruption in Iceland may have stranded Jody Jamieson in Finland, but Canada’s reigning driver of the year didn’t blow his top.
The 33-year-old Cambridge resident simply resigned himself to being stuck — and then picked up more drives, tried a trotting-under-saddle race, did a few more media interviews and did more sightseeing.
He pointed out in an email that things could have been a lot worse.
“If you are stranded in a foreign land, it’s good to be staying at a Hotel Haven,” he wrote yesterday about the five star hotel where he and his fiancé, Stephanie McDermott, were marooned.
Jamieson left for Finland on April 9 and was originally scheduled to return April 18, but a plume of volcanic ash from the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull covered Europe and grounded planes.
Jamieson who has been blogging about his Finnish trip on Standardbred Canada’s website, has written that it’s likely he’ll be able to leave Helsinki Friday in time to, hopefully, return to driving duty at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto Saturday night.
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April 25, 2010
10:12 AM
10:12 AM
Now that's the kind of stranded I'd like to be.
I unserstand, however, that it's more than just a terrible inconvenience for so many people.
Here in New Jersey and elsewhere in the USA and Canada, some families are putting up European families in their homes because the airport hotels are so overcrowded with foreign tourists.
Of course it's tough being kept away from family and friends and the comforts of home, but it's a story that Jody be able to tell his grandchildren.
"Grandpa, tell us about the time you were stranded in Finland because the big volcano blew up."
It might sound like a tall tale 50 years from now but that's what grandpa's are for.
DDM
I unserstand, however, that it's more than just a terrible inconvenience for so many people.
Here in New Jersey and elsewhere in the USA and Canada, some families are putting up European families in their homes because the airport hotels are so overcrowded with foreign tourists.
Of course it's tough being kept away from family and friends and the comforts of home, but it's a story that Jody be able to tell his grandchildren.
"Grandpa, tell us about the time you were stranded in Finland because the big volcano blew up."
It might sound like a tall tale 50 years from now but that's what grandpa's are for.
DDM
~ David Mattia
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