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    On my own

    30 de julho de 2024, Canadá ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

    For the first time since I've been here I've woken up on my own and the house seems so quiet without Daryl and Geraldine. There are thunderstorms forecast for today however when I've got up this morning the weather is changed again. I have found out who's the boat is parked at the end of the garden, The boat is called Eileen which is really strange as none of the boats out here actually have the names printed on them like they have everywhere else I've been, and sadly it's not for sale but that's probably a good thing knowing me. I have also found out that an old lady had driven into the harbour last night and that was why they were all the emergency response teams there.She is safe and sound. In the afternoon I make my way down to memorial park which is where we have the barbecue the other day with the Filipino guys. At the waters edge you can hear the thunder of the storm rolling again and the dark clouds and rain hitting the water in the distance. As I sit on the beach feeling the wind change I look down and there are two white feathers on the floor next to me. We have a bit of rain but the storm seems to have missed us. Kirsten has offered to take me to dinner and we head to the leeky canoe. I enjoy a patty, otherwise known as a burger and Kirsten has the ribs. A little later Sheryl messages me and I pick her and the girls up and we go through Thornbury for ice cream. I drop the girls off home and head straight for bed.Leia mais

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    Till we meet again

    29 de julho de 2024, Canadá ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

    We share our last sunrise on the waterfront this morning with coffee made by Daryl. As I say goodbye this morning to the guys I feel very humbled and honoured to have them as friends. Not only did they support me in Singapore but have left me with the keys to their car and their house while they've taken off on honeymoon which has saved me an absolute fortune. As I said in my speech yesterday kindness is something that can help the world go round a lot easier giving it a little oil every now and again but we all need to practise this. Kindness can come in all shapes and forms but if we just showed a little bit more we are all capable of doing this the world would be a much better place. It's never goodbye it's always till we see each other again and as the guys take off I feel a lot of love in my heart at how happy they are starting off on this next part of their journey. Anyway back to me so with a car at my fingertips I can now go out and explore a little further and after grabbing a shower take to the road. Little things I need to remember we drive on a different side of the road, traffic lights have above the road not on the side of the road and they don't have giveaways they have stop signs. With Google maps at my aid I arrive safely in Owen sound, and to be honest I'm a little bit disappointed as really all it is is a big town even the famous museum is closed today so I decided to continue along the road for another 20 of minutes to have each area called sabal beach. I can't believe how many people are here when I arrive and after a 5-minute walk on the beach decide I prefer to be one outside the house in Meaford. I continue on up to the falls which are really beautiful and the kids are on big rubber rings sailing down the river it looks lots of fun but I haven't come prepared for this so after a short while make my way back to the car and drive back to me where I enjoy time on the beach. There are a lot of winery's here and a lot of apple farms Ontario is known as The other Big Apple 🍎. Saturday after just talking to my daughter and reflecting on the news of the children that have been stabbed close to my home. My heart goes out to the family of the children my respect to the bravery of the adults that tried to protect them and grace in knowing that my family are fine. Just as I come off the phone to my daughter to fire engines past the house and head to the opposite side of the harbour to where we are multiple emergency vehicles arrive including the coast guard but after the news from home I take myself to bed.Leia mais

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    The morning after

    28 de julho de 2024, Canadá ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C

    I wake up early once again but take myself back to bed with a pint of water and a bad head I don't know what I don't understand about drinking. I plan this morning was to go and have a dip in the pool but instead I just get myself ready and pack my bag and I'm happily surprised when I open my door and Daryl is parked outside I throw my case and bag in the back of the car and enjoy my taxi to the house. Breakfast has been laid on and there is everything from fruit to bacon and egg and of course the wedding cake. Everyone helps and everything is soon cleared. A couple from the night before arrive and ask if we have found a phone. This is usually me🤣🤣I tell them about the find my phone app and they can't sign into it so call there daughter to do it for them. It shows the phone is in a church at Thornbury. It's 1130 so By 2pm everyone has gone and it's back to the 3 of us and we all just enjoy the silence. At 330 I take myself down the beach and have a little cool off. Dave and Charlotte have offered to take me for dinner as they've been recommended a really quirky restaurant called Ted's range road diner. They have everything you could want to try on the menu from snails to crocodile. I play safe with the mussels and the bone marrow. It's delicious and the waitress is actually home from uni but she is studying in Brighton England. Dave and Charlotte are taking Geraldine and Daryl to the airport tomorrow so I will see them before they leave. Back at the house I can't believe how calm it is as neither of them have packed and are still doing washing. We've agreed to do our last sunrise coffee so head to bed at 11.Leia mais

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    Pre wedding day

    26 de julho de 2024, Canadá ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C

    So once again it's an early rise there is still so much to do but luckily Geraldine's family come over once again it's wonderful how everyone pulls together to make the place look amazing but obviously with Geraldine's autistic touch and perfection. Early on one of Daryl's friends arrives to help us take stuff to the skip and also has kindly offered to take me up to my hotel to get me checked in. I'm going to spend a few nights here because obviously it is Daryl and Geraldine's wedding night tomorrow. In the morning we are heading to the tip with Kirsten , the lady who I'm going to do the road trip with and when we arrive early the truck in front of us looks like a moving bush. A lot of people are arriving today and as they swing by the house I help to entertain by making coffees and teas and at 6:00 we will all meet at the red door which is the local bar near here. For the first time since really being here I get dressed up and it's really nice as all I seem to have done is had work clothes on or tracking clothes on which is great but when you're on holiday it's nice to get dressed up. There is a farmers market on and I enjoy an hour away from the house listening to a lady playing Beatles songs and walking past the little stalls .A famous dish here is called poutine Which is essentially chips and gravy with mozzarella balls and various toppings from pulled pork to beef brisket pictures to follow. I meet a wonderful couple called Dave and Charlotte who I enjoy chatting to before heading back down to Geraldine and the girls with food as they are still at the tent preparing flowers. I stay a short while before taking the 20 minutes walk back to the motel.Leia mais

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    A day at home.

    25 de julho de 2024, Canadá ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

    Today we will spend the day at home the tent is being delivered and we are starting the preparations for the guests to arrive. Geraldine has done so well buying everything for the event and I must say it looks absolutely stunning. Her family arrived from New York her aunt and their daughter and her family the aunt and uncle live in the Philippines but are over visiting a New York at the moment which is maybe a four-stroke 5-hour drive from here. I love the fact that when they turn up straight away they jump on doing little jobs around the gardens and the place goes to look a million times better again as for saying goes many hands make work. Geraldine's family are all helping and the youngest son is on the beach literally for the whole day. We achieve so much today that there are just a few things left to do for tomorrow and we're pretty much good to go for the wedding. I have to say this is one of the loveliest weddings I've been to. In the evening once again dinner is cooked for us by Teresa and we enjoy pasta and salads which is perfect as the weather is absolutely boiling. The only blessing is we're right on the water's edge and the breeze helps massively. I have been offered by one of Daryl's friends to travel up the coast with her when Geraldine and Daryl go on honeymoon on Monday and I grab the opportunity Daryl and Cheryl have said I can stay in their place while they are gone which is perfect and I will head to Toronto just to do one night and a day at the falls. With a planning place I feel a bit happier knowing what I'm going to be doing over the next few days there is a place here called the grotto but they restrict the parking here so unless you put massively in advance it's not a place you can really visit. Personally for me I'm just happy to be going anywhere and it's nice to be doing it with local people that know the route I go to bed a happy lady.Leia mais

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    Blue Mountain

    24 de julho de 2024, Canadá ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

    This morning we are heading to blue mountain national park , it's a big skiing resort but during the summer you can track through the parks. We take a gondola to the top which gives us amazing of views of the surrounding areas I've taken my nice camera with me so capture a couple of really nice shots with Daryl and Geraldine. We have a spa booked at 2:30 and it's just a short 10 minute drive from where we are. When we arrive I can't believe it it's beautiful. They have a thermal journey which includes getting in and out of hot baths into cold plunge baths as well as infrared saunas and steam rooms to change things up a bit. The place is situated in a woodland and in the wooded areas are hammocks and rocker chairs and daybeds where people can just lie and relax and read their books. Herbal tea and coffee are on offer and cafe offers a good choice of homemade cakes. We spend a good few hours here and on the way home go to a place called Collingwood where they have a Walmart and I have my first Walmart experience. Collingwood holds a special place in my heart because it's where I did my initial training when I joined the navy. In the Walmart they even have a Collingwood Napoli which I take a picture of to send to my old shipmates. We arrive back home and after doing a few more jobs once again take ourselves to bed for an early nightLeia mais

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    A day in Thornbury

    23 de julho de 2024, Canadá ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

    Once again I wake early as Daryl is going to play golf with people from this work in the blue mountain so he is going to drop me in Thornbury a little town maybe 20 minutes down the road from where we are in Meaford.We arm ourselves with Tim Hortons the biggest coffee company here by a long way but they're french vanilla coffee is on another level. I walk too the other end of town before making my way to the river where the dam at the end of August the salmon come here to spawn and the falls are awash with jumping salmon. Back in town I grab a coffee at the bakery and straight away there is a different vibe. No one says good morning to anyone and hardly anyone looks happy a stark contrast Meaford. I stroll back down to the marina and along the beach . The water here is so clear but the beach is pebbley. I'm catching the bus back to Meaford and it arrives at 1145 so I wizz in the shop and buy the food colouring Geraldine needs. Back at the house Geraldine is doing lots of preparation and I give her a hand before going for coffee and cake to bring back. In the evening Geraldine goes to meet Daryl but I stay home and do my laundry. When they return we share a few tequila and sushi before crashing for the night.Leia mais

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    Wedding preparations

    22 de julho de 2024, Canadá ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

    I wake early again as Geraldine has work and the sunrises here are stunning and you really feel like your getting the most of a day. After dropping Geraldine to work I have the task of acquiring items for the wedding gift boxes. Daryl has things to do so I head to dollarama to see what I can find. It's very similar to Poundland In the UK and they literally have everything on my list. My plan was to walk back along the trail but the weight of 70 X all the bits for gift boxes has mounted up and I take the direct route home to drop the weight. Later in the morning I set up on the front porch to start putting 1 of each item in the gift bags and it's the first time I have stopped for days. Daryl is getting messages off work colleagues about me being camped out in the sunshine. The neighborhood is so friendly and I would say 90 percent of people say good morning as they pass. Is a very relaxing way of life compared to Toronto. I walk over to the harbour to watch the boats out in the harbour, then it's back to packing bags. Everything here is big the SUVs the trailers and the fuel bill but I guess it comes in useful In the winter. Later in the afternoon Herson comes over to help prepare things then Carla and her family turn up, all bearing gifts of food. I am so glad of the extra hands even if it is to double count everything. Once everyone has gone we light a fire and sit chatting before retiring to bed.Leia mais

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    Beach Day

    21 de julho de 2024, Canadá ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C

    We wake early this morning as Geraldine is in work at 6:00 a.m. and before dropping her off we are going to go and have a coffee to watch the sunrise. It's an early start but I'm awake anyway I'm really struggling with jet lag which is really unusual for me but I think it's because I've flown the other way around the world for a change. The sunrise here is absolutely stunning and we sit watching the Canada geese on the lake. After dropping Geraldine at work Daryl and I head back down to the lake to finish watching the sunrise. We potter around town doing the few jobs that need doing before grabbing a bit of breakfast and heading to church. There are only 15 people or so at the service but there is one lady here who is 92 and still driving she looks amazing and will be at the wedding on Saturday I promise to have a dance with her. Before we know it it's 2:00 p.m. and it's time to collect Geraldine from work. The plan is we will head to a beach a bit further along the coast and have a barbecue with some of her colleagues from work. Daryl has volunteered to be duty driver so we prepare a few things to take with us while he is doing the Uber job. When I arrive at the beach there is a little bit of controversy because we're not allowed to barbecue down there and the guy sends us to a pitch where there are huge Winnie bagos and caravans like I've never seen in my life. Van life is certainly a way of life out here. The guy on the pitch next to us complains that we haven't paid for a pitch the next thing the park ranger arrives and says we now have to move the barbecue somewhere else even though he told us to go there in the first place. I asked how much the pitch would cost and it's about 60$ so we all chip in and pay for the pitch and continue to blow big smoke into the big caravans next to us. Once the food is cooked we all congregate on the beach and half the crew go in the water but it's a bit cool for me today. A lot of the people with us today are Geraldine's work associates who are Filipino and my word what a spread of food they put on. Everything has been marinated so is so tender and cooked to absolute perfection on our caravan pitch barbecue. We spend a wonderful afternoon here eating playing games with the kids and they even get to go on one of the electric scooters that the guys have brought with them. There is so much food left over there we all get to take stuff home with us and in the Philippines they call this Sharon. We don't arrive back home till after 9 and after watching the sunset we are all exhausted and get an early night.Leia mais

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    Leaving the city.

    20 de julho de 2024, Canadá ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

    I've booked the bus to head up to Meaford earlier than I was planning to do as Geraldine and Darryl have suggested it would be better spending time with them while they are here and coming back to Toronto when they fly out to Costa Rica for they're honeymoon on Monday when I can return and do some touristy things. The bus is 3 hrs which in the scheme of things for me is short haul. As we are boarding the bus we can here a lot of commotion and as I look out the window I can see a dog and a woman shouting you can't deny access to the bus . I presume she's trying to get her dog on but 10 mins later the dog is boarding with a young blind guy and the woman is another passenger sticking up for him. Eventually we all board the bus and after six stops along the way arrive in Meaford 4 hours later. Daryl is waiting to collect me and it's perfect time in to go and collect Geraldine from work. After a little tour of the town we had to the pub and grab a bite to eat and a local beer. The home where they leave is lovely and they've kindly offered me to stay here bar the wedding night of course. The house sits on the waterfront and Geraldine and I sit out on the porch preparing the gift boxes of which there are 70. We blow up an inflatable mattress and sit doing craft making watching the world go by. There are a lot of big bikes with Harley's having full on sound systems and people on skates wheeling their dogs. it's a real community here. In the evening one of Geraldine friends drove a jolibee in for us so we take a picnic with it to the beach. It's really crazy as I don't really associate beaches with Canada but they are all so beautiful. In the later evening we head back to the house and chill. We are all exhausted.Leia mais

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