Nine Months in BC
Oh, and more snow! Mon Jan 3rd 2022 Happy New Year all. We find it hard to believe it was nine months ago today that we arrived in a locked-down Canada, having departed a locked-down UK. We have vivid memories of arriving at a deserted Heathrow airport and going straight to the front of a check-in desk, nobody in security (so much so the security manager was keen to joke and chat and show off his new technology) and then on to an empty Air-Canada aircraft to Toronto. The only brief delay was the Canadian embassy official checking we were legitimately allowed to travel under their pandemic constrained reuniting family policy. [Note to friends wanting to move to Canada, export one of your youngsters, get them to apply for Permanent Residency and then they can sponsor you to apply under their reuniting family schemes]. On arrival in Toronto, getting through immigration, Covid testing and transport queues to our designated quarantine hotel was ama...