Extravert or introvert, make meeting new people and potential friends one of your priorities—trust former 20-year-old me who felt very lonely as a new Canadian twenty years ago!
Extravert or introvert, make meeting new people and potential friends one of your priorities—trust former 20-year-old me who felt very lonely as a new Canadian twenty years ago!
Tons of my friends are young mums wondering how to deal with their elderly relatives. Both daycare and long-term care can be discussed in the same conversation.
Crossing the land border between Canada and the US is never a relaxing experience. You stay in your car and the armed officer towers over you, firing questions, your passport in hand.
I thought I was going to cry when I first stepped into a Canadian supermarket after coming back from France.
I woke up before the alarm rang with a sense of dread and urgency. “Where do we go today, again? Oh right, Canada. Shit.”
Some passengers sigh when they hear the “mind the gap” warning for the fourth or fifth time. I do too.
The last tourists, day-trippers and locals in Les Sables d’Olonne did a great job pretending that it was the beginning of the season, not the last weekend of August.
Anyone living in Nantes is used to tourists asking for directions to “the elephant”—and not all of them are drunk.
It didn’t feel like the end of summer—the market was there, as usual, the streets were lively, and the beach was completely packed.
