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Day 8 – Making sense of home ft. Opera, tacos, polish beer

Sunday Alex’s first morning as a Toronto resident. His eyes were hurting but they decided to go to 135 Ossington for coffee and watching if Wimbledon Final with Djokovic and Kyrios. It was strangely empty compared with Leil’s expectations. They didn’t know who to support in the tennis. Then they went to a pop upContinue reading “Day 8 – Making sense of home ft. Opera, tacos, polish beer”

Day 7: finally exploring Montreal in business class

Alex and Leil woke up and they cleaned. Was intensive since everything needed to be scrubbed. They headed downtown and Alex chose the coffee place. They decided not to queue for brunch as it was 20 mins plus and places were busy. The coffee was nice and in a co working space. Old Montreal wasContinue reading “Day 7: finally exploring Montreal in business class”

Day 5-6: Mini Montreal Break

Thursday In the morn, Alex was free of his 5 days so he went to get coffee. He was meant to have a call but it was cancelled so he was on code duty. Alex started work on Thursday so had to join a bunch of zooms all morning. He didn’t have his laptop yetContinue reading “Day 5-6: Mini Montreal Break”

Day 4: A Canadian Lockdown Day

Leila wakes up and she feels like she defo has the Cov. She’d been having a mini cough since the Monday, but by now it was for real. Leila told her team that she had COVID, and took a test. L’s mum said that she wouldn’t believe she had COVID until she took a test,Continue reading “Day 4: A Canadian Lockdown Day”

Day 3: Daal & Rain

Leil wakes up and is like ‘before I start work, I need to go get some supplies = vicks, veggie burgers, soya milk and tahini’. She went to a coffee shop where she chatted about Khoi coffee and felt cool, until realising that they weren’t talking about the same khoi, there’s one in Canada. ThenContinue reading “Day 3: Daal & Rain”

Canada Day 1&2: An unexpected positive

Day 1, Sunday 03/07/2022: Alex had a LONG flight to come see Leil in Montreal (he flew over greenland, pictured). He was meant to arrive at 2.15pm but it was more like 5.30pm by the time he got to her aunty’s house. His flight took off an hour later than planned and when he gotContinue reading “Canada Day 1&2: An unexpected positive”

Day 22: Maida Vale in Review

Week 1: We settled into Maida Vale and Alex bought 23 doughnuts for £3 on Too Good to Go while visiting Ed Hall. We ordered sushi and had a date night outside. We discovered Notting Hill Farmers Market and bought trout, tomatoes and special mushrooms. We thought it was great until we went to Queen’sContinue reading “Day 22: Maida Vale in Review”

Day 2: Sunday Routine

We wake for our first day in Maida Vale, and went straight out for coffee. We’d slept for ages, apart from waking up when they fought over the duvet -> they’ve resolved to have 2-duvets to prevent this. They wandered out and apparently took no pictures… They walked first to Ladbroke Grove and then onwardsContinue reading “Day 2: Sunday Routine”

Part 2: Day 1 – this time it’s personal

Hi (from Leila) – we’re back again, the blog has been reborn, we’re back in isolation and living together again. Since last time we posted, we’ve been moving between places, we’ve lived in Chiswick, Kings Cross and Germany. We’ll post some stuff on Berlin in a bit. But here’s day 1 of back to lockdown:Continue reading “Part 2: Day 1 – this time it’s personal”

Day 195 – 202

Mon 28th Sep – Mon 5th Oct Monday (unexpected) date night On monday after an intense day of working, L & A thought they deserved a break and had scheduled in some Deliveroo luxury. However, as the time neared, they decided to go out to eat instead. They dressed up for the occasion and wentContinue reading “Day 195 – 202”