Sarah and Ian's Move to Ottawa

The story so far...having planned and booked a three month trip to South America, we were given a difficult decision to make when Ian was offered a job in Canada. After much hard thinking, we took the job, but get the best of both worlds as we still have two weeks in Brazil and Chile before arriving in Ottawa. We are now living in Ottawa and enjoying the big adventure of living somewhere new. This is the story of our experience...

Monday, June 06, 2005

Cowboy Cooling

I admit that I’ve had a stereotyped view of Canada as being under mountains of snow all year round. Sadly it isn’t like that as the last week has been baking hot. Over 30C everyday. With humidity it feels more like 40C. Time to get air conditioning in the flat. We picked a company and I should have seen the warning signs when they answered the phone just with ‘hello’. They didn’t show up the first time and were an hour late at the second attempt. Worse than not showing up was that the air conditioning didn’t really cool the flat down. Instead it tripped the electrics out during the night and we woke up all sweaty. But not in a nice way. We got another unit fitted in our bedroom and if we keep the bedroom door shut it does get cold in there. The rest of the flat still stays hot so we’ll have to spend the summer in the bedroom.

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