Blogs from Montréal, Quebec, Canada, North America - page 7

I woke up around 4:30 am, as I do most every night, looked out the winter and saw nothing but white, the snow storm had begun. Later at around 7 am Jerry got up and took a few pictures of the city below. Our room has a river view, but today you wouldn’t know it is really there. We stayed in the warmth of our king size bed for about another hour, then got up to go down to our buffet breakfast. For a hotel buffet, it was actually good, Jerry even said that the breakfast potatoes were some of the best restaurant potatoes he had ever had, and that is saying a lot, since he is very persnickety when it comes to breakfast potatoes. No pictures of the food, it was just your normal breakfast ... read more

Planning Since moving to New York, going on a trip is considerably more difficult. In Portland we had a great cat sitter in Chad. Now, we have to spend a lot of time finding someone willing to come to Hamilton Heights to look after Tarragon. If we are just going for a long weekend he is pretty good on his own, but anything over 3 days requires a nanny. On our last 2 trips, our friend Christina took care of him. However, this trip she is also out of town for the holiday. Fortunately, Jerry was able to find one of his co-workers to serve as nanny. As Tarragon ages he requires a great deal more attention than the street kitty we adopted several years ago. Typically, when we are going on a trip ... read more

My name is Jonathan Truong and I will be a new Travel Blogger since I've been traveling so much and I will be traveling in the future. I'm new to Travel Blogging so it will take time for me to get adjusted to the Travel Blog. I was recommended by a family member to do Travel Blogging or something like a journal. So I've been attempting to budget my time to share my thoughts about my travels and places I've been to. So I will be blogging more about travel as I will be traveling a lot and as I'm doing that, I will be showing you where and what I've done as well in creating reminisce about those places. So here's the first blog in Montreal, Quebec. For first-timers or those who are interested into ... read more

We started off in search of a crepe place that we went to 5 years ago. On our way, I kept looking for a little boulangerie that I recall we went to to get coffee and pastries the last time we were here. Surprisingly, I found it! I couldn't remember the name but could only recall that it was not too far from the hotel and was on a side street off of Rue St. Catherine. The place is called Au Pain Dore and is on Rue Peel. It's definitely worth going to for a coffee and pastry or croissant. I don't recall walking so far for our crepe place the last time we were here…. we must have taken the metro. Chez Suzette is located in Old Montreal and is quite a way from our ... read more

Il y a à peine une semaine et des poussières, je revenais d'un voyage au Japon de près de 3 semaines. Quelques jours avant ce périple, je vivais une journée qui fût en soit le voyage d'une vie: celle de la célébration de mon union avec un homme extraordinaire, celle de notre mariage! Avant de vous raconter les péripéties vécues lors de notre Lune de miel au Japon, j'aimerais d'abord et avant tout vous parler brièvement de cet événement marquant de ma vie dont les préparatifs comme la journée en elle-même auront été un périple, une sorte de voyage au coeur de ma vie. Le 9 octobre 2014, à nos 1 an de relation, Jean-Philippe m'a demandée en mariage, ce que j'acceptai avec plaisir. Un an de relation seulement certes, mais c'était pour nous la suite ... read more