I’ve been an enthusiastic user of the métro in Montréal ever since we first visited. Over our various stays, I’ve traveled most of the routes. I’ve been to the ends of the lines, or one stop short, on all of them.… [Read More]
A truck just came by and quickly spray-painted this “sharrows” symbol on the street, right in front of our condo.
Sharrows–an amalgam of “share” and “arrows”–are used on streets without a designated bike lane.… [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]
Canada’s not only putting explicit health-harm warnings on cigarette packages, but printing them on each cigarette’s rolling paper too–in English and in French. I suppose if you’re going to suck in nicotine and tobacco particulates, ya might as well huff that fine, fine, toxic burnt ink residue too.… [Read More]
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Crowds of Summer
Things are busy. Manon and I are both taking six hours of French classes per week, along with homework and the usual quotidian grind.
Summer is a glorious but brief season, so Montréalers are anxious to be out and about when the weather’s good.… [Read More]
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Butterfly Week
The summer season is short here. You can see the changes in things from day to day. This week, it’s the butterfly’s time.
Up at the top of Mont Royal, it was a hot and very very humid day.… [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]
This past week, I attended an activity with a local intercultural group: learning to kayak. Now, this group is big into canoe camping and white-water kayaking, but they have to entice us newbies into the sport a little more gently.… [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]