Todd and Chuck blog about their trips to Montréal
Posted in attractions on Nov 13th, 2009
Montreal is a beautiful city to visit in Spring, Summer, and Fall, and it gets better every year. In 2009, a large section of rue St Paul in the Old City was blocked off for pedestrian traffic only, and the results appear to have been quite successful. The city also introduced the Bixi program, with [...]
Posted in attractions on Oct 11th, 2009
… and much of Canada, of course.
This was one of the more welcome stories of the week, especially for the thousands of tourists who visit cities like Montreal and Toronto every year – many for the first time. There’s nothing like being able to get a sense of a place before you go there, and [...]
Posted in 2008 plans, attractions on Nov 28th, 2008
Three weeks from today, we’ll be in Montreal. We’re both getting pretty excited about this. (I get excited in August, Chuck reserves his eagerness for the 21 days before we embark.)
This weekend, he’ll be calling restaurants to line up reservations, while I choose a handful of things we might do while we’re there.
We’ve been to [...]
Posted in attractions on Jan 3rd, 2008
For at least a couple years, we’ve intended to tour the Pointe-a-Calliere Museum in Old Montreal. The museum is housed in a contemporary building, built on the site where Montreal was born. (In fact, from what I can gather, it’s only been recently established beyond a shadow of a doubt that this is the spot [...]
Posted in attractions on Aug 18th, 2007
Montreal will get it’s first flagship Apple Store – also the first flagship Apple Store in Canada – in the not-too-distant future!
AppleInsider reports that the new store will be downtown (1321 St Catherine Ouest) in a storefront currently occupied by MENS. They’ll vacate in November, at which point the site will undergo heavy renovations to [...]