Our guide to health, fitness and nature in Montreal. From beautiful parks to running routes, friendly gyms and peaceful places, you can find it all here.
Between long weeks at the office, jogging on cracked concrete sidewalks, weekend hikes in the summer, shoveling snow out of the car in the winter and the pain in the wrist that comes after a particularly dry metro stop...
You wouldn’t think Montreal was one of the most important places for the migration of the sexiest butterflies – the most photogenic, the most nostalgic and the most jet-setting. But it’s true, and we o...
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 t...
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...
The weather’s nice (like), a little sunny, some trees are sprouting leaves, it’s still raining fresh in April. In Montreal, spring is a confusing time, when we ruin little kitten heels in the cracks of sidew...
Quebec is a region of water – you can’t throw a stone without it ricocheting. There are lakes, rivers and the river. At the lake, we do pontoon-soft cream-bronzette....
Montreal is a small island (some compare the city to a mini-New York), so all the excitement of spicy city life is concentrated here. Sometimes, like now in spring, we find ourselves hanging around the edges of communi...
Sometimes, living in the city, we forget that the Quebec region is one of the most beautiful in the country. It’s vast, and once you get away from the big cities, you can wander through the deep forest, over the b...
Look out! It’s tulip season! Get out your gardening gloves and wide-brimmed hats! It’s less than a 7-hour drive from Montreal: the tulip festival at TASC Tulip Pick Farm in Ontario is a change of scenery, bu...
For our next weekend at the water’s edge, and less than 5 hours’ drive from Montreal, we’re going to take our favorite route: Highway 40, which follows the north shore of the St. Lawrence River northwa...
