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Food

The Maple Report #2

You’d think this would be a winner: maple, chocolate, coffee. What’s not to love?
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Montréal Wildlife

I was out walking the other day, and saw a very science-fictiony view of Île Sainte-Hélène, one of the many other islands in the St. Lawrence River.

Manon and I have been out on the Île before — once in summertime when we drove around looking at the views, and once in a frosty February when we attended the Fête des neiges de Montréal.… [Read More]

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Musings and Observations

Swearing is Sacred in MTL

Warning: this post contains vulgar words in two languages.
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Places

View From Our Balcony

I call this photo, ”Pick Yer Poison.”

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Food

The Maple Report #1

Maple products. They’re everywhere here. The Maple Report seeks to identify the good, the bad, and the sappy.
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Places

The Ascent

I grew up in the foothills of steep mountains in a town named for a canyon, and now I’ve moved to a vast glacier-flattened plain and a city that’s named for a mountain.… [Read More]

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Places

The Village

Our apartment is in the newly and controversially re-dubbed district called The Village (formerly: ”The Gay Village”).
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Pictures

Spring in MTL

I’m new here! I don’t know what kind of tree this is! I don’t know what kind of tree this is either! I don’t know what tree this is either again!… [Read More]
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Experiences

Haute Tension

The last week before our departure was hell, and TBH I wasn’t handling it calmly.
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Pictures

Rough Night