After almost 4 weeks here, I’m starting to love the Chinook winds that every week bring the spring over from across the Rocky Mountains. Yesterday was quite dreary and cold (-11) and today sun is shining and it is +3C outside. The air is fresh smelling of melting snow and imminent awakening of nature. I went for […]
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After staying in Canada for almost a month this year (Calgary, Edmonton) and for two weeks last year (Vancouver, Vancouver Island, Toronto), I attempt a bit of a description what I have observed so far. There is no such description as a typical Canadian – at least I haven’t been able to find out what […]
While researching how to start a business here, I came across an interesting requirement – you need to have a driver’s licence in order to submit your application. Having a local address made sense immediately and after having pondered a bit I realized that driver’s licence here is like ID card in Estonia – it […]
started already Friday evening, when we went to buy ourselves a new bed. With our move to a new flat on February 1st, we are trying to get as many things done beforehand, so that we wouldn’t have to stay in an empty flat for too long. Fortunately the bed-buying went really well thanks to […]
Quite contrary to my normal habits, I have started going to the gym 3-4 times a week. I’m taking advantage of my husband being a fitness guru and practitioner and kind enough to give me a set of exercises to do as well. At first I wasn’t too enthusiastic – it was hard to motivate […]
Started from Calgary downtown on a Redarrow bus at 8am this morning and have travelled North towards the capital of Alberta. Weather was super ice and sunny, the landscape – like Estonia without trees (that’s what my husband said). Flat country with little houses scattered across vast territories. One major exception was the amount of […]
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 […]
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, […]
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