Here’s a great itinerary for spending one day in Montreal, one of Canada’s most colourful cities. You’ll find restaurant suggestions, top sights, shopping and some choice bits of history. If you’re spending one day in Montreal, a good portion of that will be taken up eating. And when you’re considering where to eat, you need […]
Montreal Lantern Festival
I’ve been to a lot of spas that promise the fountain of youth but I’d never heard of the Peaches of Immortality. I had to go to the Montreal Lantern Festival in the Chinese Gardens of the Montreal Botanical Gardens to find out about this. The Peaches of Immortality only ripen every 3,000 […]
My first travel video
It’s a red letter day, and one worth cringing over as I hear my voice on the Toronto Star website in my first travel video, Montreal, City of Glass. (Full disclosure: I didn’t shoot the Montreal video, it’s footage taken from the video demo shoot for a possible travel series. I’m just in it.) See my […]
Reel or real – shooting a demo part 2
People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. What about girls who wear glass dresses? Luckily, when I was wearing a glass-encrusted couture dress in a Montreal street scene for our demo video, no one pelted me with rocks. Espace Verre, a glass works studio, gallery, school and glass facility centre was the […]
Send me to jail, please
I spent a couple of hours in prison this afternoon. Trust Montreal to transform a prison into La Maison Des Gouverneurs’ Wine Cellar, which I believe, means the Governors’ House Wine Cellar. Yes, the Quebec Liquor Board keeps a mere 50,000 select bottles of wine in the basement of the La Prison Des Patriotes […]
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