Montreal!

lol don't go to nuns island

anyone been to blue lotus in verdun? everyone talking about it lately, supposed to be crazy good chinese food super cheap

What about ile des soeurs? Is that too remote for walking/biking?

― Chantal Anchorman (admrl), Thursday, August 22, 2013 9:24 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

don tdo

adam try and get a room at casa bianca

casabianca.ca

I have a suspicious feeling Île Ste-Hélène and Île des Sœurs/Nuns' Island have a kind of Greenland/Iceland thing going on. Someone overhears "hey there's a park on an island and you can ride bikes and do stuff etc. etc." and then they look at a map and go "oh, it must be Nuns' Island. Let's go." It was like when the vikings named Greenland to misdirect potential pillagers and invaders to a frozen wasteland.

I bet there's a tons of people who have shown up on Nuns' Island with picnic basket full of baguettes, hummus purchased at the quatre frères, white wine, Ray-Bans, an acoustic guitar, and marijuana... Ready for the party guys! HAHAHAHAAH. Condos.

My uncle and aunt from France visited Montreal this summer and they actually went to Nun's Island. I don't know why. They found it was beautiful, shed a tear and decided to become canadians. The mysteries of immigration.

Haha ok no nuns island for us!

I have booked two AirBnBs only to be rejected. I have great reviews! Is it my face? Would it help to explain that I'm not American?

I will look at this casa, socki

No casa =(

https://www.airbnb.ca/rooms/700477?locale=en

^^^ great location, cute looking

googling for "gite" might help

I want that.

Ok wait, when are you coming to Montreal, admrl? if we don't hang out this time we should def hang out another time, prob where there is beer.

mile end is so great with the streetlights out. so dramatic. it's a thing they should just do on these summer nights, for ambiance. I had such a nice evening walking to olimpico, the sky this deep violet, ambient social activity audible more than visible.

ps I would love to hang with Adam but can we just establish whether or not on this trip it is going to be a candle-lit lady-&-the-tramp spaghetti-sharing wedding anniversary scene, on which several ilxors are impinging, or whether there is an actual social window

i love mile-end skies on late summer evenings, seriously one of my favourite things in the world

walk along saint-laurent as if taking a dilapidated backroad into heaven

mile end is so great with the streetlights out. so dramatic. it's a thing they should just do on these summer nights, for ambiance. I had such a nice evening walking to olimpico, the sky this deep violet, ambient social activity audible more than visible.

I'm available to start a band called The Sky This Deep Violet if you want. Must have own gear.

Oh hai

Well this is kind of a Lady and a Tramp thing, in more ways than one! I don't know if I will have a chance to hang out this time, but seeing as it is like a 4-hour drive, I doubt this will be the only time I find myself in Mtl.

Looks like I will not get to ride a Bixi, this time :(

my good friend is off on his motorcycle trip heading toward the northeastern US. he has threatened to go to montreal. you've been warned!

Ok!

these lilac clouds

caught on a pole like a kite in a tree near my apartment,

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BTWvmmdIUAANee3.jpg

caught on a pole like a kite in a tree near my apartment,

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BTWvmmdIUAANee3.jpg

montreal thread: I don't know if this is just a sad & transparent manifestation of the ebbing of summer, the greying skies, &c, but I want to swim in a river while the water is still habitable. can you do that here? have you done it? to take a train & swim near a bridge?

You have the beach at Cap Saint Jacques, it's a beautiful place. Heard about a beach in Île Bizard but never been there.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BUeG86kCcAAPPKu.jpg

this always just reminds me of mulholland drive

Hi Montreal. Your airport can eat two dicks (and Tim Hortons 1.5).

heh

Trudeau still feels like an upgrade to us who've been through Mirabel for all those years.

After 15 years of YYZ it feels cozy and comforting

now that's a long drum solo

I had no beef with the infrastructure btw, but with customs being redirected into two queues, one of which was served by five counters, the other by one (1); and me thus missing my connecting flight.

so: im gonna be in montreal from dec 6th - 10th. anything particularly cool going on then?

picturesque rather than life threatening ~weather~ iirc
& probably, i think montreal winter is pretty well catered for & enjoyable if it is just a momentary window in your otherwise sensibly climated life

varning (2-day hardcore punk fest) is that weekend lol

really appreciating this ambient chemtrails awareness campaign

Yeah, I can think of about a half dozen people who might be responsible.

I'm getting worried by the number of condos being built around downtown and griffintown, for all kinds of reasons (urban, economic).

condo towers, i mean.

i'm stoked for this one though https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/901941_468243749956328_13436519_o.jpg

mtl doesn't have enough whatever that type of architecture is called imo

i remember going to vancouver & being wowed at a lot of individually ugly new apartment buildings looking really great clustered together with the backdrop of hills, i feel like having that kinda thing en masse is to some degree a prereq for it looking effective

Agreed, outside looking in Vancouver is somewhat nice. However, once you are inside those streets and the only thing around is ugly condo towers with deserted balconies, bleh.

This is not what Montreal is about, at all.

Plus, they have a hard time selling those type of real estate in Toronto, I wonder how it fares in Montreal where you have plenty of cool appartments and houses in great neighborhood for insanely low prices.

i bet they do great because people are like "FINALLY AN APARTMENT AS GAUDY AS THOSE ONES I BOUGHT IN TORONTO, BUT IN MONTREAL"

vhs i thought you were moving to nyc to be with your beloved rangers

chemtrails!!!

it isn't working out for now :(

idk if theres a specific thread for this but are there any good new restos in mtl that are worth going to? esp ones that wld be open on mondays?

mondays is hard but ya there are lots of new places opening up all the time now! bethlehem xxx, impasto, the izakaya in sardine, uh... what else... you in town or planning on being here soon?