Montreal is one of the greenest cities in the world, even if it doesn't always seem that way. Especially in summer, especially during the heat wave, especially when our apartment overlooks a building that was due to be...
Between long weeks at the office, jogging on cracked concrete sidewalks, weekend hikes in the summer, shoveling snow off the car in the winter and the pain in the wrist that comes after a particularly dry metro stop at...
It's summertime! We've planted fresh herbs on our balcony,we've decorated our apartment with a big bunch of wild flowers picked during our last road trip to the countryside, we've opened our windows wide. In recent y...
Ah, Quebec in summer! The fauna, the flora, the mosquitoes... It's the best time of year to play outside, go hiking, roll around in the grass,wash your hands in the morning dew. We stroll in the shade of the trees, back...
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...
That's it, the summer solstice is over, and we're entering the mildest days of the year, smelling of wet earth, bbqs, lake water and warm spruce. And summer's holy grail, Canada's June-July madeleine de Proust, is the s...
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...
It's crazy the dichotomy of Montreal (and Montrealers), because in winter we spend as little time as possible on the city's gridded streets - because of the wind, the snow, the ice, plus we're cold and it's dark - and o...