True story >> Spring arrived the other day and honestly no one saw much difference around here. During this week, for a few hours, we had a positive temperature (+3ºC) and we were already driving open glass, wanting to get rid of the coats and such.. what winter doesn't do. Today it made -23ºC of sensation and even the thought froze. Yesterday we had a little light storm, just not to miss practice. And there goes the family armed with shovels, boots, gloves, burrows and everything, to clean the property. At least we have fun. The temperature was around 0ºC and the conditions for snowmen and snow ball fight were…

* Best neighborhoods in Ottawa – Family oriented** This post was written in English, please use the translate feature (on the sidebar) for other languages. Thanks, i'm sorry. These days I came across these reports in a magazine here in Ottawa and found it interesting to share here on the blog, especially to get to know more about the city, cost of housing here and how Canada evaluates neighborhoods in general. When we got here, I must admit, we knew very little about the different neighborhoods and transportation systems between them. Our first home here, which lasted just over a month, was located in a neighborhood considered "dangerous" (nothing compared…

*Thanks a bunch for all recent sweet comments! You guys rock!! So the weather's still cold as hell and we're fine to say, in March. I've heard at work that it's been the coldest winter in the last 20 years here in Ottawa. I do not know if the information is safe source, but anyway, even without having scientific experience in the subject you can already notice that the cold is still firm and strong in the last fortnight of winter. Last week gave up a day with positive temperatures and it was already that snow snow melting. The staff was even excited, you could only see barbecues and gardening…

This weekend we took advantage of the nice temperature and went to do one of the things we had in mind since we arrived in Canada 6 years and 4 months ago. In short, a long time ago we beat our program, I can't believe it took us so long to do this. But anyway, we took advantage of a hill here close to home and the new board and there we went. It was super fun and you could see that Alice has adventurous spirit. I can say that getting up and down gets tired as hell and that Alice faced the steepest descent well before Me (I took…

Obviously there are several places that you can taste a good beer in Ottawa, but we moved into the new house 3 months ago already and gradually we are trying to get to know better the neighborhood we live in, Kanata. Since time has not allowed us to take many long outdoor walks since we moved in, we are discovering, whenever it gives, some restaurant and shops here in the region. Last Saturday, so, without big plans, we went to meet a micro-brewery less than 5 minutes from home (the one I show from the video of the previous post …). The history of The 3 Brewers or Les 3…

Just because last night we had another episode of freezing rain, I found it convenient this tip of how to walk on ice. I take this opportunity to point out that I already used it this morning and look, I swear I did not fall … Hehehehe Well valid for the people of the Toronto area, where a lot of inches of ice were seen a few weeks ago…  It's never too much to take care of these crazy ices… Lol