Tuesday 6 August 2013

I HAVE ARRIVED/JE SUIS ARRIVE

I left NZ on Friday 2nd August and arrived in canada on Friday 2nd August thanks to international date lines. Canada Eastern time is 16 hours behind NZ or 8 hours ahead yesterday. What?


I'm staying in an apartment building on the 18th floor which affords some pretty good views across Toronto.



This is in a serviced apartment paid for by the old girl's employers for two months - she's been here a month already. It is a pretty good apartment (about 800 square foot) with one bedroom and a den (study).

We have leased another apartment for a year and take this over in September. It's almost identical which is no great surprise as it is in the building right next to this one. They were built at the same time by the same developers. The new apartment (condominium) is also about 800 square foot but with a smaller lounge and bigger den (ideal for visitors to use as a bedroom) and comes with a parking space in the garage which we will sub-let if we don't buy a car.

The last couple of days have whizzed by with sleeping, walking about, sleeping, dining out and drinking bloody good Californian Chardonnay. The French in the heading is because dual language is used everywhere. This in fact surprised me as I thought that only Quebec did this but I sippose that Ontario is so close to Quebec that there is crossover. It'll be good for brushing up on my French (once good but now rusty).


5 comments:

Richard (of RBB) said...

Lynn gave us much more info in her letters. Lift your act Nanook.

Tracey said...

Glad you are safely arrived - what a north american, big city lifestyle living in a 'condominium'. All the other people I know who live like this are on TV shows!

THE CURMUDGEON said...

Yeah, North Americans and their jargon. As far as I can gather a condominium is a flat with a laundry as well as a bathroom. An apartment is a flat with shared laundry in the basement.
Fancy word for not much really.
The view is stunning though.

Robert and the Catholics said...

Wow now I know a real American.
I wonder if you will get the accent too!

THE CURMUDGEON said...

Well, Second, in Toronto French is almost a dual language with English and they use a lot of accents - grave, acute etc.