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.
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...
The city of Montreal, after a winter that, as usual, had us complaining more than we should have – during the long, dark afternoons of the coldest days, we despaired like Pre-Raphaelite figures that spring would n...
Ah, the river! In Montreal, it’s the touristy viewpoint where we once saw a whale, and the cause of the most icy wind, which means that here, the brushing is offered by the weather. But the St. Lawrence River was...
On the shores of Lac Champlain, one of the few lakes in Quebec where you can swim for free(sorry, but the lakes in the region are incredibly clean and well-preserved, and conservation is expensive), there’s a pict...
April 22 is Earth Day around the world, and in Montreal, ecology is very important. Since the 2000s, the city has been a model of ecological transition, and increasingly, Montreal is turning to the ultra-local, small fa...
When you go on a road-trip from Montreal, you often have to choose between the water’s edge or the forest. There are those who want to spend the day at the lake, sunbathing on the shores of one of…...
For a weekend, a day or a week’s vacation away from the noise and excitement of the city, you’re looking for a mix of nature and the small-town-charm of a village where everything is easily accessible: cultu...
