Hi everybody!
Above all we welcome Loan Guillermin aka Junior who was born this morning and we congratulate the happy parents and wish them ... Good luck!
We are now in Ottawa for a week and it is time for us to take stock of our hot heart! Indeed
Thursday night, going a drink with our "contact", Mila (Guc an old anime that some may have known) We talked a lot about the differences between France and Canada. So we realized that many amazing things we had arrived here. Here's a preview ...
In the beginning there was ... Canadian Customs at the airport in Montreal: smiling, welcoming, friendly ... a wonderful home in the country (even when the Immigration and serious gunshot vests are a must!) contrary to American customs, cold, where we struggled to understand anything without getting barking above!
The first bus trip ... to get from the airport to downtown Montreal: a driver incredible! Very welcoming and very chatty, Gaëlle could talk with him for a quarter of an hour and we were able to gather valuable tips and a warning ...... "If you do not go to Quebec to be the first French to miss this beautiful city!" It's unthinkable! "
At the exit of the same bus in the heart of Montreal, with 11-hour flight in the legs and 6 hour time difference ... we are completely lost! The cold, suitcases, fatigue ... Looking at the map ... and stops? A taxi. "No thank you, we do not want nice taxi. "No, no, let me help you, please show your card ... where are you? ... Ah ben you the wrong way, retrace your steps and take the street over there." That's all ????!!! He got out of his taxi to guide us and that's it! It looks absolutely do not take us, he just wanted to help us (try asking for help to Paris taxis or other)!
We also got lucky in our first restaurant for the traditional "Putin," the waitress was adorable. We care! "For the first time you visit Canada? Everything okay? The dish please?"
A nice benefit is that in restaurants is not obliged to ask for water every two minutes ... servers are very attentive and our glasses come complete each time they are half empty!
A waitress and hostess at the bank even made the effort to speak French so that they understand something (especially the bank !!!!!).
Here in Ottawa we also came across a fabulous bus driver. It was Thursday, while visiting an apartment in Gatineau (not very far from the street "Grenoble "^^). We boarded the bus in Ottawa, we had to go up its terminus, then take another bus. Only here the bus will "transform" a line can become another ... thus our 67 has changed in 63 allowing us to stay warm in the bus! Perfect! Only we did not know exactly where our stop (such as judgments have no name!). We are asking for help to the driver who agrees to tell us exactly where to get off. We then we discuss France, Canada, the bus .... when it comes out a little guide of the network. "But of course, is what we need!" And without one driver unexpectedly we are tending guide .... he gives us his own !!!!! Wow! Super! Thank you, thank you very much! That
several things that surprised us here and we think unlikely in France!
The heat from the cold ambient fills the Canadians who reigns!
soon!
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