A little place called "Home"

 

Burlington

 

Welcome note in our apartment

Hello Hi

I haven’t properly introduced myself. My name is Burlington. You can consider me to be the Stellenbosch of South Africa, as I’m mere minutes away from the wine farms in Canada. Although if you called them wine farms here you would confuse the average Canadian because here they are known as “Vineyards” and calling them wine farms might spark of a series of conversations about the weird things South Africans say.

I would say that I’m the Stellenbosch to Cape Town as I’m only a 40 minute train ride from Toronto, but Toronto is nothing like Cape Town. You can think of my big brother, Toronto, like you would Johannesburg but with far less trees and lives right next to a great big mass of water (also known as 'Lake Ontario" which forms part of The Great Lakes). [For more on Toronto refer to the postings already made on that great big City ;P] I too live right next to this big mass of water, and have heard that even in winter a few very brave souls try to surf the waves of the lake (I am on the hunt for this and will take photo’s once I find it – although I think it’s an old wives tale because the waves in the Lake compare to that on the banks of the Kromme river at high tide – not very big).

Burlington has a population of 165,000 and is considered a city by Canadian standards. I thought it was very small and offended a few when I said I was happy to be living in their town (not city as they believe it is).



Ok so one of my sources is off because this board says 173,000 - but potato patato right?



Burlington’s average temperature (found on a know it all site) can reach highs of 30 degrees in the summer months and lows of up to -8 degrees in the winter months. I think they may been a little off in this as my first weekend in Toronto recorded -16 degree temperature. Burlington is also known to have really great winter snow. Which up to now I’ve had three times – but the locals tell me that the ‘weather phenomenon’  shouldn’t last long and I have at least one big snow storm to look forward to in February. Which to their surprise I really am looking forward too!!




From across the bay - Really Beautiful City by night

 

To the other side of the lake is Niagara. She is one of the 7 wonders of the world (am planning a trip there this weekend) and produces enough electricity to power 3.8 million homes (2,338,000 Kilowatts). Which is absolutely crazy if you think it’s the second largest hydroelectric producers in the world. Photos to follow soon on that one I promise!

I've added a map so that you can kind of figure out where I live in relation to other 'known' places.

So to give you a perspective - A is Toronto, B is Burlington, C are the Niagara Falls which I'll be visiting tomorrow and D is New York where Dax lives - so now you know where I am in the world.

 'Nough' said for now... cheerio folks

HAHAHA - had such a laugh at the welcome note in the boys apartment!!