My Trip to Canada

Timos Labrinopoulos

04 May 2025 — 1 min read

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As you already know from the second post in this site, I will attend the Upper Bound Artificial Intelligence Conference in Edmonton, Canada. Since to get from Athens (Greece) to Montreal (there is no direct flight to Edmonton) is 4,720 miles, the idea is to have a tour in near by cities: I have not been to Canada before!
So, from 12/05-29/05 my GSM mobile will be off but Viber and WhatsUp (hopefully!) will be available. Here is a visualization of the trip!

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