13 years!

Between 1993 and 2006 we often considered moving to Canada but it was never anything more than a thought. In order to work there we would both need to retake exams which was something neither ofnus felt prepared to do. We did consider other countries; Spain, USA, New Zealand but nothing came of them. New Zealand was simply too far away and the USA would always take second place to Canada.Spain, although a short flight away, had a language barrier and the culture didn't suit us. In fact Canada was the benchmark and no other country ever came close. Had we known that we would eventually be moving there we wouldn't have tortured ourselves so much!

In 2006 we booked a holiday to Ontario, our first since 1993! By now my sister in law had moved to the US so we needed a holiday rental property. I trawled the internet for days and finally found a fab 5 bed roomed house in a place called Collingwood. I emailed the owner and we immediately clicked...like we'd known each other for years. She was English , having emigrated a couple of years earlier. We booked the house and the flights for that July. Unfortunatley a few weeks later we got an email from the owner saying she would have to cancel the booking as the builders of her new home had let her down and they would need the renatl to live in for a few more months. By now we were emailing quite a bit and I completely understood that these things happen. The upshot was that we eventually found another rental near Niagara on the Lake....