Far and Away

I'm sat in my hotel room in Toronto writing this. I'm here on business for 4 weeks, and this is my 11th day. It's a nice suite in the SoHo Metropolitan, it is about the size of my flat at home, which is nice. The view outside is not to pretty. I can see some dustbins, and the hockey player on top of Wayne Gretzky's restaraunt spinning around. There are some people on the running machine in the gym, and some other random skyscrapers in the distance.

This is my first time out of the Country (England) on business, and by far the longest I have had to live on my own. I spoke to my wife earlier and she is struggling too, as it is her first time on her own in our flat since we moved in three years ago. It has to be difficult for her, she doesn't have any friends around where we live as she works in London, and we live in Watford only because that is where I work, so all our family are not within 10 minutes like before (although they are still within an hour away, I can understand that it is not the same, you can't just "pop" round somewhere quickly). Here though, there are 4 or 5 of us from my company, so it's a case of going out every night with people I know, which stops me from feeling alone, except for today (it's a Sunday).

One downside to going out every evening for a meal is that I'm definitely starting to put on weight. My metabolism isn't the best anyway, I need to be more restrictive in what I eat, we'll see how it goes for the next few weeks...

Toronto feels an OK place, nothing special, although I am close to the main areas so that at least gives me plenty of scope to decide what to do.....I'll have to do the usual touristy things, go up the CN tower, take in a 'ball game' erm, and maybe some other stuff too......Caribana next week, and also a week of dragon boat racing.....I'm working until at least 7:30 in the evening most days, and sometimes up til ten, so it's not as if I'm getting bored or anything.....