Lord Berri Montreal

Travel Blogs from Montreal

Just off the boat

A travel blog entry by jody1

... into a local hockey game happening in the ice rink.

Our next move was to buy some groceries for dinner, we were keen to dine in tonight and have some family time. Finally some decent wifi! It’s early days yet but we think we like Montreal. After shopping we headed back up our street with our groceries along with many other locals. If we keep our mouths shut we could just pass as French ...

Explosions, monsters and a decapitation

A travel blog entry by williamluff

... on stage. Naturally, he reappears, in a studded top hat, for a brilliant finale of his biggest anthem, 'School's Out', which morphs into 'Another Brick In The Wall pt 2', complete with explosions, balloons and streamers, sending the by-now capacity crowd crazy. There's not many bands in the world who could follow that, let alone willingly invite them to be the support slot. But then there's not many bands in the world like Maiden. Paul and I take our places at the ...

Old Montreal

A travel blog entry by damenfamily

Temperature is 11 degrees but when we headed out this morning it felt like 3 degrees! At least there is not any wind, unless you are walking down a wind tunnel road like St Georges Terrace in Perth. Oh and it rained on us briefly too, but the sun came out in the afternoon.

Montreal is very french. It feels like we are in Paris, not Canada. Everyone is bilingual so they will serve us in English but ...

Change planes...

A travel blog entry by hescalgary

... this ravaged country SJHB is all about family. Immediately we were part of the daily routine as the boys arrived home from school and we gathered for reflection, prayer and the bestowing of “bravos” on each of the boys. We then enjoyed a delicious meal and camaraderie with some other guests who will be travelling with us to Jacmel tomorrow. Chapel bell goes at 5:00 am, breakfast at 6:00, departure at ...

La Canada: All for One, and One for (Montre)al!

A travel blog entry by here-then-gone

... them jumping - 'wellgood', as a Canadian British-imitator might say. But I politely declined their offer to jump too, on the basis that the waterproof integrity of my passport is currently untested and is rather unlikely. Still, it made for an entertaining evening!

Every evening that I was there (Thursday-Sunday morning), Mathieu and I headed out clubbing with his friends. This is rather impressive for a man with a 9 to 5 job, but since this was his last week before ...