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…

Today I decided I needed to be in a more nature-oriented area, hopefully with less people so I took the bus to the Parc de la Chute-Montmorency, a park with a huge waterfall (higher than Niagara Falls!). I spent most of the day walking around the falls and surrounding area. There was a group of…

I slept pretty well, the neighborhood seems to be a quiet family oriented one. Most of the sounds I heard were of kids walking to school on their own or with their parents. Flavie’s sweet cat came and sat in my bed as I got ready. I had a cup of tea on the terrace,…

Tuesday was a travel day for me. Took the bus from my Airbnb to downtown Sherbrooke where I caught the Limocar bus from Sherbrooke to Montreal. Then it was a half hour walk through Montreal going past the neighborhood I’ll be staying at when I come back next week and to the train station to…