In 1982, just a few years after the children’s book “Masquerade” kicked off the first “armchair treasure hunt,” Byron Preiss released his own challenge to the treasurially-inclined: find twelve buried “casques” following the clues in his puzzle book “The Secret.”… [Read More]
The Botanical Garden of Montréal is big and relatively expensive — $22.50 for adult admission, with a $5.50 discount if you live in the greater Montréal area. But if you get a $9 Accès Montréal card, you can have free access to the outdoor portions of the Botanical garden!… [Read More]
Yesterday, both Manon and I were just about to start meetings over the internet, when my notebook started throwing server not found errors.
Down in the data closet, the modem’s lights were all dark, except for the one, sad blinking “trying to sync” indicator.… [Read More]
Manon has written before about Montréal’s Bixi bike program. I’m a newcomer to the program this year, and have lots of not-especially-well-organized thoughts about it.
Today, I set out on a small expedition, starting at one of our nearby Bixi stands.… [Read More]
This is on Rosemont Blvd. about a mile away from our house, near the Rosemont Métro station. I saw it from the bus window so couldn’t go in, but looks like it’s a combination massage studio and florist.… [Read More]
It was our first weekend after moving in, and there was no internet. So on that Saturday, I went on a morning adventure that was an urbanist trifecta: I bicycled, walked, and took the metro.… [Read More]
After six months in California laboring to reduce our load of possessions and make an all-encompassing list of them for the Canadian government (required for settling in Canada), weeks of getting our new tenant installed and repairing newly-discovered defects in the ADU, and days of cleaning, schlepping, and shuffling all our household and personal items around to pack and make way for the caretaker, we finally got to sit still for five hours on the plane flying us to Montreal for the summer.… [Read More]
Despite all my whingeing about the internet situation, things are going pretty well up here. I’ll try to bring you up to date.
Friday, I went to the public library, where I was able to use the public WiFi to upload the pictures for this posting.… [Read More]
Hey kids, we’re heading back to Montréal next month, and we’ll be living in a new arrondisement (borough) called Rosemont-La Petite Patrie (“the little homeland“). According to one source, it acquired the second half of its name from a novel that was adapted into a popular TV show:
… [Read More]The name of this district comes from a soap opera, broadcast in the 1970s, created by Claude Jasmin: La Petite Patrie.
We’re in our final week here, and I’m getting all the feels about leaving. At some point, I hope to be able to figure out how to articulate some of these thoughts.… [Read More]
