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xiphias ([personal profile] xiphias) wrote2007-09-07 10:41 pm
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Montreal

Lis and I are in Montreal, to help [livejournal.com profile] papersky celebrate her book.

Montreal is a great city. Montreal is a city which believes that french fries need gravy and cheese on them. In this, as among other things, Montreal is right.

[identity profile] felis-sidus.livejournal.com 2007-09-08 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
Envy is a terrible thing.

[identity profile] gilmoure.livejournal.com 2007-09-08 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
What do they drink there?

[identity profile] soberloki.livejournal.com 2007-09-08 07:16 am (UTC)(link)
Montreal is a puzzling but delicious city.
redbird: closeup of me drinking tea, in a friend's kitchen (Default)

[personal profile] redbird 2007-09-08 12:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Anything and everything. Tea, coffee, excellent fruit juices, cider, beer, wine, fizzy water, frappes,—
redbird: closeup of me drinking tea, in a friend's kitchen (Default)

[personal profile] redbird 2007-09-08 12:00 pm (UTC)(link)
er, that em dash should be an ellipsis. Sorry.

[identity profile] nex0s.livejournal.com 2007-09-08 12:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I *adore* Montreal and cannot wait to go back... Except that I also want to hit Quebec City too. And [livejournal.com profile] midnightstation has never been to Toronto which is uber fabulous. Neither of us has been to Vancouver either....

I think I just really love Canada :)

Look at you: traveling international style TWICE in one year!!!

N.

Look at you: traveling international style TWICE in one year!!!

[identity profile] rebmommy.livejournal.com 2007-09-08 12:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes! I am impressed - and glad that you are having a good time. I love Montreal, too - went there once with dad when you were a baby, and had a great time. I also love the rest of Canada, although I have only visited the country a handful of times - camping with the girl scouts when I was in elementary school, the trip with dad when we were young marrieds, my trip to Hollyhock Retreat Center to learn healing chant, and a visit to Vancouver to my rabbi and his wife (same trip as to Hollyhock). All are wonderful memories. I want to return, perhaps to Vancouver again and on to Alaska. Any trains going north?

[identity profile] xiphias.livejournal.com 2007-09-08 12:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Belgian beer.

[identity profile] teddywolf.livejournal.com 2007-09-08 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I like fries with gravy, I like 'em with cheese, but I have yet to find either a vegetable gravy I like or declare poutine to be on my list of favorite sins, alas. I do like how they make fries with cheese and sour cream up there, though. Yum...
Hope the book celebration is going well, and Browngirl says Hi to everybody :) All our best.

[identity profile] mswae.livejournal.com 2007-09-08 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
How did you get there? If you drove and took 90 to 87, you came within 5 minutes of my house ... if so, do you want to see if we can get together on your way back?

[identity profile] jehanna.livejournal.com 2007-09-09 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
Oooo, Montreal. Haven't been there since highschool. Enjoy! :)

[identity profile] fitfool.livejournal.com 2007-09-09 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
I'm bummed I didn't know about poutine when I was visiting Montreal. Next time! If you're still there, there's an incredible chocolate place where they indulge you with things like crepes with melted chocolate and bananas, chocolate fondues, and even small shots of melted chocolate.
Juliet et Chocolate
1615 RUE SAINT-DENIS
MONTRÉAL, QC H2X 3K3, Canada
(514) 287-3555
Very close to the "Berri-UQAM" stop on the subway.

[identity profile] embryomystic.livejournal.com 2007-09-09 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Poutine: C'est bon!

[identity profile] xiphias.livejournal.com 2007-09-09 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Also about two blocks from where I'm sitting right now. Haven't gone, yet, though, and don't know if I'll have time. Several folks here have gone.

[personal profile] cheshyre 2007-09-10 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
We drove 93 to 89, which is kind of the hypotenuse compared to the 90->87 route.
And last night, we left Montreal shortly after midnight.
Maybe another time.