Expedition Canada

Buy Monday Mon Feb 28th After a further stop off in Hamburg for we assume, more containers, our shipping container is now on its way to Montreal.  As of Monday 28th it's just off the tip of Cornwall.  Exciting! Even more exciting in the latest house hunting news.  We saw two properties last week.  One that was essentially a tear down, a big project, but in a prime location and one that had fab views but was in town.  We were about to make an offer on the town one when a further property popped into the inbox  on Friday ... this time in Grandview Rd, the other side of Gibsons.  It was just up behind Bonniebrook Beach where we spent out first month on the Coast. We both said to each other 'this is the one' before seeing it Sunday lunchtime and it was, very much so.  Monday lunchtime our offer was in and by the end of the working day contracts were exchanged.  A bit quicker than the UK! A high stress day.  It is five years old, modern ...

The Sun is Out Howe Sound from the deck Sun Feb 6th So a good day to be talking about the Sunshine Coast. Not so good if you are a Vancouverite heading back from your weekend on the Coast for work next week.   Sunday afternoon is the day when those with holiday cottages return to Vancouver.  It's also the day that BC Ferries decide to cancel two successive ferries - Langdale to Horseshoe Bay, (and the reverse sailings that got the ferry over here in the first place). Overflow car park  The cancelled 10.50am and  1.05pm (I prefer 1 305hrs - the 24hr clock got ingrained in the World Service!) left a long queue of cars in the overflow carpark and the main marshalling area after the resumed  3.15pm had departed back to Horseshoe Bay.  Some drivers were expecting a 4 hr wait, perhaps not able to get on a ferry until 7.40pm.  In winter the stalls selling food and drinks are closed and few will want to venture 10 mins back to Gibsons for refreshments and...

Rain Stops Play Starts Hopkins Landing - Morning Walk Sun Oct 17th The thrashing took place in the City of Bath when the home team were given a rugby lesson by Saracens in a palindromic 17-71 drubbing.  Bath have now lost all of the opening games in the Premiership and are bottom of the league.  The Sarries game was a great game to watch, even for Bath supporters.  Bath probably learnt more today from the opposition than their own coaching staff.    My fellow Brit dog-walker with the Rhodesian Ridgeback, is a Gloucester supporter.  They drew 25-25 to London Irish in Brentford.  Much less embarrassing!  On the plus side, at least we're not paying subs to Bath now we're in Canada! By Sunday afternoon the rain of the last few days finally stopped and we got out to play without wet weather gear.  In the local area we'd had 154mm of rain over Friday and Saturday and a modest 15.4mm Sunday.  Roads, creeks and trails have been running...