In order to be considered for renting a flat here, you need to fill in a long application, agree to all the rules and make a deposit by check. Since we do not have checks yet (takes 3-6 weeks from order to delivery – apparently the makers are really busy) and electronic transfer takes time […]
Monthly Archives: January 2013
The first guest was my husband’s colleague from the new job. As it turned out they had previously also worked for the same company, but never met before. He had an interesting background – Lebanese-Irish-Scottish-Canadian heritage and had grown up in California and worked in the Middle East. We had a good time discussing different countries and […]
is not easy in Calgary as it turns out. The good ones get taken within a day and the not so good ones increase prices. My mornings have started with reviewing the alerts I’ve got overnight and then going through the existing rental websites to see whether something new has arrived. First few days I […]
It started last night. We were coming back from the grocery trip and while the weather had been quite mild even warm before we went in, when we came out of the store there was a strong wind and the frozen rain was beating us against the face. By the time we had finished dinner, […]
Finally got around to it! I have been in Calgary already 10 days and recorded my experiences with status updates in FB, but decided that I need to keep my promise and start a proper blog. I had done a little search online on what to use as my software, google search obviously suggested blogger.com. […]
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