Daily updates

 got up and out of the Airbnb with my usual travel worries that the train will be canceled or late or there will be other issues getting to Union station on time, but everything worked out well. I got my bag checked in and got my meal time assignments for lunch and dinner and went…

The temperature has dropped quite a bit, going from 82 on Thursday to 70 on Friday and the high today is predicted to be 60, so definitely heading into fall weather. As I walked around the neighborhood I’m staying in I realized that many of the large houses are actually duplexes, and often have completely…

I woke up in time to see the dawn this morning, gorgeous red clouds in the sky. After packing up, I walked to the train station past the car art, the 1976 Olympic flame sculpture (that is the first Olympics I watched on tv- I’ll never forget Nadia Comaneci), and the Dendrites sculptures. I don’t…

Today was my last full day in Montreal. As I seem to do when I’ve been someplace for a few days and have been very busy, I didn’t do quite as much today, though I was still relatively active. I hopped on the metro again and went out to Biosphère, which was part of Expo…

Today I learned more about Montréal’s history at two very different museums, had delicious sandwiches, took the metro for the first time and saw more street art.  On my walk to the Pointe á Callière museum I saw several sculptures, and stopped for coffee at the Crew Collective and Cafe, a coffee shop and co-working…

Last night I was having trouble getting to sleep, not because I had coffee late in the day, I think it was because of the weekly family zoom call. It’s at 10 PM my time which means we don’t get done till 11 and I think I was just too wired from chatting with my…

Today was my first full day in Montreal and I did a lot of walking! First thing I headed to a little café in my neighborhood and got an excellent latte and chocolate croissant that had just came out of the oven. Yum. After breakfast, I walked through a few different neighborhoods, passing gorgeous stone…

It was my last day in Quebec today and I decided not to try to run around and do too much before I left. I got up and read for a while, then went out to see the Quebec Marathon as the route was only a couple of blocks away. When I got there the…

I walked a different way through the neighborhood today and saw some more street art. I think that’s one of my favorite things about exploring a new place is seeing the community artwork that’s around. I found a very cool free little library at the base of some very steep steps. There was also a…

Exciting start to the day. When I got home last night there was a sign on the door that some of the streets in the neighborhood would be blocked off at certain times on Friday because they would be filming scenes for a TV series, À propos d’Antoine. I had no idea if I’d see any…