of course we stayed in the apartment next door to our friends, and ate most meals with them. Our long weekend was delightful, filled with walking, shopping, visiting, eating and cooking. The beau and our host rode bikes one morning making a 20 km tour of town.

I was struck by the limited amount of daylight (roughly 8:30 am to 4:00 pm) in mid-November. Our host imports one of the full-spectrum light machines, swears by it for his own use and for his kids, and can cite the scientific literature http://irc.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/fulltext/ir659/contents.html.