Winter can sometimes be tough for many, especially between Christmas and Valentine’s Day…. Maybe you’ve just been left, or things are going badly at work, or your personal life is in tatters. No matter, sometimes it just feels good to mourn your life, and you don’t always want to hide under the covers.
Montreal is a very romantic city and that includes places perfect for a moment of dramatic solitude. There are countless places in town to get your emotions out, and you’ll know several of them!
We asked you what you think are the best places in Montreal to mourn your life? Your answers were funny, touching, surprising and sometimes very revealing. Here are our favourites:
1. At the doors of Beaudry station or in front of the Archambault sign on Ste-Catherine
2. At the top of the steps of St. Joseph’s Oratory
3. Dieppe Park tested, and unfortunately approved
4. On the sidewalk coming out of a bar on St-Laurent
5. On your balcony smoking a fag
6. In the toilets of Bar Pow Pow
7. In front of my shoveling cart after a storm
8. In the metro
9. In the Mount Royal forest
10. In front of Leonard Cohen
11. In Jeanne-Mance Park, looking at the Mount Royal statue
12. In gigantic parking lots with the wind in your face at -20 degrees
13. In Maisonneuve Park on one of the long chairs under the giant trees!
14. Decarie on rush hour is no worse!
15. Madonna’s next show
16. Choking after smoking a large ***** from **** on the balcony
17. On the bus with my head pressed against the window
18. On the Charlevoix Bridge watching the Lachine Canal at sunset
19. On the quayside of the Old Port
20. In my bathroom…
21. Mount Royal, back to the wild and shouting at the trees
22. In the World Trade Center, so that your cries resonate with the echo
23. All the streets of MTL at night, but my favorite: below the Angel at Jeanne-Mance
