Leaves are slowly sprouting on the trees in Montreal, and winter dust covers the cars and blows in our faces. It’s time to plan our summer. We want to get away for a weekend, preferably for a change of sc...
Every summer, Montrealers take the river shuttle or the metro to go dancing on Île Sainte-Hélène on summer evenings. It’s always electronic music, there are buckets of cocktails that look like those in sa...
It’s May 11, 2026, and the Montreal Canadiens have just won a game 6-2 against the Buffalo Sabres. It’s the Stanley Cup playoffs, and it’s been a long time since Montreal’s iconic hockey team has made it...
Finally! The cherry trees are in bloom in Montreal, and this week is the time to take a long lunch break on a sunny day, pull out that camera we got as a Christmas gift but don’t use enough, and go breath...
When we were kids, we used to make birds out of toilet paper rolls covered in colorful feathers at the library. And it was a wonderful afternoon. Today, that’s the atmosphere you’ll find—like a Prousti...
When you think of Montreal and Quebec, many things come to mind: hockey (Go Habs Go!), artists (Riopelle, of course), the city’s modernist architecture andthe brownstonesof the Plateau, poutine, lake pon...
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, which is our favorite museum in the city, is currently showing the Torlonia Collection—a collection of Italian marbles—but in addition to this major exhibition, it is als...
After a frankly dreary first week of May with showers, nearly fall-like temperatures, and plenty of chilly wind in the streets of Montreal, spring will finally settle in for good in the region. The com...
Mother’s Day, tulips, walks through the fields, the first picnics, and festivals… We’re always very busy in the spring in Montreal. Would we love to get away every other day to take a walk in the woods...
A vase for our bouquet of tulips? A bag for our magazines and journals, to write in the park while wearing a light sweater? A coffee table for the apartment we’ve just cleared out almost entirely in a bur...