a quaint french café in mile end, montréal
Mile End is a part of Montréal much like Brooklyn, New York: varied immigrant communities, Hasidic Jews and artsy hipsters coexist, making it a sister neighborhood to Brooklyn’s Williamsburg. It…
it’s always sunny in montréal
I woke up this morning in Montréal. Don’t ask me how I got here, must have been some kind of vortex that was activated by too many lattes [or in…
smells like poutine spirit: montréal’s place in french north america
Forget waterboarding. For someone who is trying to avoid carbohydrates, being in a city full of Poutine is quite torturous. I know the name sounds strikingly X-rated, but for those…
finalement à montréal: nail sculpture, some expert stanchioning and halal wifi
As the flight attendant began to make the “get ready to land” announcement in some accent I could not place, I watched the lights of Montréal grow closer and my…
flying north flies north to montréal, and meets a music legend along the way
I’m not a huge fan of LaGuardia – the airport that is. The airport named after the WWII mayor of New York City is generally used for domestic flights, so…
ma’am, that banana could cost you $300
I woke up at the crack of dawn to head to Pierre Trudeau airport to catch at 6:30am flight back to New York City. Since apparently there was some kind…
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