Europeenne Hotel Montreal

... de Casamento Grego, lembram? Filminho bom, leve. Dá vontade de conhecer a Grécia. Quem sabe um dia? Antes disso, vamos para as Ilhas Fiji, porque segundo Pingo, o aquecimento global vai fazê-las desaparecer. Por outro lado, deve amenizar o inverno aqui no Québec. Afinal, o aquecimento... aquece!
Ontem à noite preparei o meu primeiro jantar de verdade: frango acompanhado de penne ao molho napolitano. Até que ficou bonzinho. A receita foi ...

After a journey that lasted 25 hours, of which over 18 were spent in the air (many kudos to Korean Airlines, they are absolutely great at customer service and their pilots are smoother than the skin on their flight attendants' faces), we came home and went directly to my Mom's to pick up our sweet little dog, who still remembers her parents. She is now a bit ...

... people going elsewhere. Street artists were showing seasonal paintings - snow covered spiral staircases, snow on the streets, snow on the roofs. We truly felt a snow anticipation in the air

Uphill from a plaza was Quartier Latin where we had an evening coffee. Waiters kept asking us in French and we could not shake off a feeling of being in a magnificently unreal place

Several times we saw signs "Come back in May". I wonder...

... on ‘idealism’ whereas the English tend to be more pragmatic. She suggested that the installation of bicycles was perhaps based more on the French idealism J . We did see a few of the bicycles being used but, by and large, most sat unused, at least at this early stage in the program.
We returned to Bert’s workplace and while Betty ran to get bagels for supper, Bert gave us a tour of the hostel. It was very ...

... makes everyone feel annoyed. On the other hand, the mood at the airport in Buenos Aires was jubilant, as the Argentinian soccer team beat Venezuela 4-0. Cheers could be heard from all the passengers at the gates. The flight from Buenos Aires had two choices for dinner: ham, or ham. Oh, and for breakfast? More ham. I'm not making this up. The good news is, I made the tight ...

... Aside from that, the plane tickets are booked. Thanks to Marie's handy phrasebook, I now know how to fluently pick up Japanese men. I also have a long list of must-sees and must-dos from Marie, Susie, Jerome and other friends. The packing will, as usual, probably not happen until the night before, but that's okay, cause I don't need much. And I have a brand-new memory card for my camera with lots of space to take pictures of Engrish signs everywhere. The countdown is on.

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... system in bright and sweeping detail. The projection on the domed-room also gave the show a more dimensional quality, such that we didn’t feel like we were looking at a flat projection on a screen. Plus, the lack of light pollution you’d usually experience looking at the night sky, along with the movement of the images and the commentary… well, you wouldn’t get all that from standing in your backyard.

The rest of our time in ...

... called the Biodome, which is part of the Olympic stadium (1976 Summer Olympics) which had been used for the cycling events but has now been made into a kind of museum of ecosystems. The space has been divided into 5 zones (a tropical forest, a temperate forest, an estuary, a polar area and a desert) where we were made to solve puzzles in order to collect crystals, before proceeding to the Crystal Dome! Well, not quite. Each area had the same plant life ...

... In 2001, the country was reeling from the first few months of a war that it had no way of knowing would drag on, and on. We stayed in places like Neve Ilan, Tiberias and Netanya - Netanya, site of the infamous 2002 Passover Massacre - because they were ostensibly "safer" than the major centres of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Go figure. I went back three years later on a reunion tour and to visit some friends, and ...