In case you don’t know the Tim Bits...

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I arrived on a Sunday night.

Jet lagged.

Second time I crossed the Atlantic.

I woke up early.

Full day of meetings.

My head was hurting.

Jet-lag… and the Quebecois accent.

4 years without having said a word in French, and now… that weird accent.

At 6pm, I was really in bad shape.

I said… I go to the hotel, I need a quick dinner and a sleep.

“Yes, Vicente, do that… and remember that at 10:30pm, we are leaving”

“?????”.

Well… Apparently, with all that accent, I had not understood that I had to go to the inspection of “tonight”.

It was the inspection of a bridge that was in terrible shape.

And I was the only representative of the consortium available.

There you had me.

Jet-lagged.

Tired.

Catching up that accent.

And 2:30am in the morning.

-14ºC when I was coming from +20ºC in Spain… just a few hours earlier.

And they said.

“Vicente, let’s go for some Tim Bits”.

I just wanted out.

A warm place.

So… “Bien sûre!”

Same dough than the doughnuts… in a perfect spheric shape… dozens of flavours… Those are the Tim Bits at Tim Hortons… iconic brand in Canada.

No coffee. No Tim Bits have ever been more recomforting in my life.

From that night, that’s my best souvenir… together with a fleece jacket that I kept until the day I had to leave Canada and move to New Zealand! They saw me shaking because of the cold that amazing night in the fall of 2008.

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