Montréal plays a lot of different cities in film/TV
What the hecque?? We get on the plane to Québec and land in San Diego’s Historic Gaslamp Quarter???
The Gay Gaslamp Village Quarter??
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The Apartment
This year, finding a furnished apartment was much more difficult than past years. Whether it’s the “end of the pandemic” or the housing crisis or some other reason, it was not easy to find a furnished apartment that would be willing to give us a 5-month lease.… [Read More]
We have arrived in Montreal and are at a hotel, we’ll check into our Airbnb tomorrow and hope for the best. You’ll hear about how it all goes soon!
Part 1. What Happened.
We had some associates from the US visit us here, whom I will call Régis and Léontine (many of you reading will know who they are, but as this blog is publicly accessible this post will have some intentional vagueness).… [Read More]
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Cat Made a Funny
A sign with another lovely French food pun, à la this post from earlier this year. Seen down at the Old Port, not far from the Queues de Castor (Beaver Tails) place.… [Read More]
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I’m Sohrry
Sohry I’ve not been posting recently, been having some health challenges. Ready to get back up to speed now! Here are some flowers. Hope you’ll forgive me.
peonies, Chinese garden @ the Jardin Botanique
Some of these health problems were not so much caused by our bug-out to Montréal (though that was exhausting) but by the place we moved into.… [Read More]
This blog post is backwards; I’m starting with the ending and detailing how I got home from my visit to the Promenade Masson (“the Heart of Rosemont”).
Why? Because it was my first time on an e-bike!… [Read More]
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Why Montréal is So Green
This. All happening right now. And a tornado warning.
The lights have flickered a couple times, but we’re still empowered. Charging all the devices while we can, though.
It appears the building across the street was tagged last night.… [Read More]
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Something in the air…
There’s a lot in the air these days. Unfortunately, a lot of what’s in the air is smoke, pollen, and other scary things.
The wildfires in Canada are in the headlines around the world, although somewhat surprisingly, a lot of the stories seem to take a folksy “ah, whoops, it’s like bad weather” perspective.… [Read More]
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A Maple Rain’s Gonna Fall
Manon has already shown you the fluffy snows of June. But that’s not the only weird weather, what with the winds and the … rains?
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