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 ...

Ship Heads to Southampton Queen of Surrey out of the fog inbound to Langdale  Sat Feb 12th Canada's latest export heads to Europe and the US, but not on the ship that's heading back from Montreal to pick up our container in Southampton. The export, 'Freedom Convoys' anti-mandatory vaccination trucker blockades,  have arrived virtually in France, NZ and the US.  It has greater news coverage than Maple Syrup and Ice Hockey! It will add to the current global supply-chain challenges (at least locally) and it's difficult to see what has been achieved and what domestic agenda has inspired the movement.  Perhaps it has wider sponsorship.  In the current global disruption climate nothing would surprise me.   Love it or hate it The US has offered to help remove the US/Canada border blockades and the Canadian courts have issued injunctions to remove the truckers who have closed some border crossings.  It appears that disruptive disorder is the new...