Last week, I went to the Soif de Cidre festival , and between two thunderstorms and the 12 glasses of cider I drank - to taste - I was able to chat with several of the region's cidery owners. We know the winemakers p...
Summer has finally arrived, and with it the crowds on the beaches... Everyone we've asked has given us a list of secret beaches, the ones we don't tell other people the address of(sorry) because once they're "discove...
We were out and about in Tadoussac, on the North Shore, this weekend, and stopped by GREMM's Centre d'Interprétation des Mammifères Marins . We were able to learn about whales and other animals that swim in the St...
Depending on the traffic situation around Montreal (getting on the island, getting off the island, circling the island), you can get just far enough away to find yourself in total, untouched nature with a 1-hour drive -...
In summer, the asphalt boils off the soles of our gougounes and Samba shoes (horror!) in Montreal, and in some streets you feel as if you're underwater, so much so that the humidex is in the carpet... It's part of the...
When you're in Montreal, with your feet planted on the asphalt and between two café-gallery-partys, you can forget that you're in Canada - and that you're on the (wild) coast of a vast boreal forest, and that just outsi...
Montreal is steeped in architectural history, from the pale-gray cut stones of the Old Port to the modernist towers of downtown, and the red-brick condos with metal staircases of Mile End. You can't get a matcha to g...
When you leave Montreal and drive for a few hours in any direction, you can easily come across picture-postcard villages, fields of golden wheat, rivers gurgling under tall trees, small mountains, orchards... And somet...
There are many seasons in Quebec-not just summer, fall and winter-that are dictated by one of our passions: terroir. There's Sugar Bush, Snow Crab, Tulips, Petits Fruits, Apples... In Montreal, we can follow them by...
In Quebec, many of the region's iconic places and institutions are named after Samuel de Champlain - the self-proclaimed founder of New France. That's why we have the Champlain Bridge in Montreal, the Champlain district...