Nature
It was cold and rainy when we were at Mount Tremblant. Well, “cold” — it ranged between 8C and 15C (46ºF to 60ºF). As mentioned in Part 1, this was actually a good thing, as it kept away the mosquitos.… [Read More]
Tag: Travel
The Resort
The eponymous mountain is one of the tallest in the Laurentians, with an elevation of 932m (3,058 ft). The Algonquin name for the mountain is Manitonga Soutana, usually translated into English as the “Mountain of Spirits.”… [Read More]
Le P’tite Train du Nord
At the beginning of the month, we went off for a weekend to Mont Tremblant, a mountain resort about 85 miles/135km north-west of Montreal in the Laurentian mountains (a.k.a.… [Read More]
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Urbanist Trifecta
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]
As Manon’s mentioned, we spent a couple of days poking around the Ottawa area.
Our experience of Ottawa-Gatineau was significantly different than our quotidian Montréal experience, in part because we rented a car.… [Read More]