We’re entering the last phase of the Montreal summer: it’s getting a little cooler, the kids are heading back to school and the corn and sunflowers are turning Quebec green and gold. September arrives, and w...
Did you know that it’s been scientifically proven that proximity to water is a powerful anxiolytic? Just looking at the water (in this case, the river) for a few minutes a day can make us calmer, happier and, more...
This summer, several days a month – and sometimes for a week – there’s something strange about Montreal. The light coming down from the clouds is red-orange, not white, and the sky is milky and heavy....
Summer in the city – and in Montreal – has a palette of proto-nostalgic flavors reminiscent of the American movies we watched as kids, with the taste of freedom and expectation and the heaviness of an endles...
There’s a special place in the hell we imagine for people who make donuts in seadoos by the beach in summer, when we’re trying to spend a quiet afternoon in the sun. We’ve all been there – and so...
Summer in Montreal is all about parks, microbrews, grilling in the backyards, ice-cold matcha in the scorching streets, moving quickly from the shade of one tree to the shade of the next. It’s also…...
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...
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 wind...
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 t...
