Expedition Canada

A year in BC Sun Apr 3rd Howe Sound Catchy title for a book don't you think?  Maybe not. Easter Saturday 3rd April 2021 A year ago today we arrived in Canada.  Departing an empty Heathrow airport, on a near empty Air  Canada aircraft to Toronto.  International flights to Vancouver had all been cancelled.  All incoming international flight passengers were being ‘processed’ in Ontario.  Queuing for a passport check, immigration discussion, Covid tests and then a bus to our quarantine hotel.  Hotel room OK, food well off the bottom of the scale.   Two days later after negative Covid tests we were on our way to Vancouver and the final eleven days of our quarantine in North Van.  Our garden suite was great, our host welcoming and Jack arriving midway through our quarantine, the icing on the cake.   Our house search started over a year ago, before we left the UK.  Tentative offers made no progress.  On Thursday last, we cl...

Time Has Flown By Sun Oct 3rd Hopkins Landing - Morning Light After not seeing other spaniels for months, we've seen several in the last week It doesn't feel as though it was six months ago that we left the UK and moved in to our far from salubrious hotel quarantine accommodation in Toronto.  A week later as we settled in to our first month-long rental in North Van for the final eleven days of quarantine, Jack arrived. Looking uncertain and worried in the back of his crate, he leapt out at the sound of our voices, his joy clearly evident.  Transportation to the kennels, an overnight and long haul flight, albeit direct on a freight aircraft rather than via a stopover in Toronto, must have been quite frightening.   Pet Air UK, the specialist company that organised his travel (with 1st class price tag!), said usually the owners worry more than the animals.  Probably true. Seconds after being let out of his crate, you would not have known what he had just been ...