Well, here we are in Nova Scotia.
Our house sale eventually completed on February 15th and we flew into Halifax on February 19th. The flight was excellent, we were moved to seats at the exits so we had more leg room, the food was good and best of all it only took 10 minutes at Immigration to collect Rods 2 year work permit and my 2 year visitor permit.
The following day we meet Vaughan from Clarke's transport, which stopped Rod from fretting ;). After lunch we collected ID cards, Rods SIN number (equivalent to the UK NI number) and sorted out Medicare Insurance, all in all a busy but productive day. We also went to meet June from Mumfords B&B, who pointed us in the right direction for cell phones and laptops. June and Mark are expats who have lived in Halifax for about 12 years.
Vaughan arranged for us to meet a lady from the Pontiac car dealership where we bought a Pontiac Montana minivan at a steal, Annette then contacted an insurance broker who arranged our auto insurance at a really good price and after 1 years insurance we will get the equivalent to full no claims discount. Another weight of our shoulders as I hadn't brought a copy of our no claims from the UK, and when we contacted the UK insurance they said it would take 14 days to get the information to us. We were hiring a car which was costing about $750 a week, arrgh, paying the extra for a year seemed a better idea as the insurance quote was still very competitive.
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