Saturday, May 25, 2013

Toronto: ten years later

Toronto is another place where we lived for less than a year (JF and I moved *a lot* in the first five years of our common life together!). Toronto was synonymous with big jobs in big companies for both of us. It was good money and good experience, but I was so miserable... When the Yukon government called to offer JF a position, we packed our Wesfalia and left without hesitation and never came back... until last week.

We showed the girls where we lived and brought them to Royal Falafel to eat great falafel, where we would sometimes go after walking our big St.Bernard along the Lake...

Then we drove around a bit, but mostly got disappointed because things had changed so much in ten years we could not find what we were after and only succeeded at getting ripped off at the Big Carrot, that used to be a decent priced health food store...


Fortunately, we had a great evening with friends who made us an amazing pizza on the BBQ (Ricardo style). You throw the freshly made and rolled dough on the hot BBQ, cook on one side for 3-4 minutes (just enough so it has nice marks) and put it back on the plate, cooked side on top), garnish to taste and put it back on the BBQ until the cheese is melted nicely. It was amazing. It tasted like brick-oven pizza!!



It was the perfect evening to celebrate our return in Canada! We had a delightful evening and were ready to get back on the road to get to Ottawa!

6 comments:

Sarah-Our Island Home said...

Ottawa is where I am from!!! I look forward (hope that you will post) some pictures... Great veggie restaurants and health food stores in Ottawa too! Have fun!

I. said...

bon retour au Canada a tous les 5!

Catherine said...

Sarah, unfortunately, I don't know if we'll got to Ottawa per se. We are enjoying the Chelsea/Wakefield area a lot right now!

Merci Isa!

Sarah-Our Island Home said...

I love Wakefield! One of my favourite spots! Hope you are having a good time!

Anonymous said...

Bonjour Catherine,

vos images sont toujours bouleversantes et je vous remercie encore tellement pour tout ce que vous avez publié et qui m'aide à enseigner à mes petits élèves de façon alternative.

Lorsque je passe sur votre blog j'ai remarqué qu'il n'y a plus de textes en français ces derniers temps. Y-a-t-il une raison particulière pour cela? Que j'ai manqué sans doute lorsque vous l'avez expliqué.

Je vous embrasse, Nathalie depuis la Suisse(thalieboubou@hotmail.com)

Catherine said...

Bonjour Nathalie,

Merci pour vos beaux commentaires!
J'explique ici mes raisons : http://catherine-et-les-fees.blogspot.ca/2013/04/anastasia-state-park-fl-teamwork.html

Je suis désolée si vous n'êtes pas à l'aise en anglais... je sais que c'est le cas pour certains lecteurs et la décision n'a pas été facile à prendre, mais j'étais sur le point d'arrêter d'écrire, car c'était vraiment lourd de tout traduire... et plus de mes lecteurs comprennent l'anglais que le français...