Like many visitors to Montreal and elsewhere in Quebec, we’ve found ourselves going out in search of wine. We wanted to give it as a gift to friends, drink it at a restaurant, or share it back in our room. Like many visitors, we’ve found our first trips to SAQ to be dissatisfying. An interesting [...]
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The Bones of Old Montreal
Posted in info on Mar 24th, 2007
You can walk down the narrow streets of Old Montreal and pick up that sense of Old World meets New. But you can delve deeply into the stories of nearly every building in the Old City here. I’ve spent hours “walking the streets” on this site, looking up building after building, reading about the previous [...]
Getting Around Montreal
Posted in info on Dec 22nd, 2006
A few notes about getting around. Finding a taxi never seems difficult. If you’re staying in the Old City, you can often find them roaming about, or calling a cab will bring one to you within a couple minutes. There’s also a taxi stand at Place d’Armes, across the square from the Cathedral de Notre [...]