my son, who was 3 last summer didn't really enjoy going to the various festivals, mostly because he does not enjoy huge crowds.
He liked going up mount royal and walking in the old port (he likes boats)
― silverfish, Monday, 28 January 2013 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
biodome is the most fun thing in the world for a kid
― flopson, Monday, 28 January 2013 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know if there's anything going on in the days you'll be in Montreal, but Piknic Electronik can be a fun family thing to do also.
― silverfish, Monday, 28 January 2013 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, if I could only recommend one thing for a 3 year old it would definitely be the biodome. Lots of animals, but relatively small so it only takes a couple of hours to visit. Perfect for kids that age.
xp
― silverfish, Monday, 28 January 2013 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
never been to biodome :S
― zero dark (s1ocki), Monday, 28 January 2013 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
sorry to keep reviving with touristy questions, and i know this is the montreal thread so people may be biased, but: should plan a day to spend in toronto on the way home or use that day in montreal instead? the difference is between 4 or 5 full days in montreal
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 4 February 2013 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
Depends on how much you want to be in Toronto for that day, obviously. Perhaps there is some Igloofest events you want to see, but apart from that it feels like the dead of winter (to me, at least).
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 4 February 2013 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
Oh wait, this will be the summer and with your kid. Nvm. Montreal is truly amazing in the summer, you'll find stuff to do for 5 days,
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 4 February 2013 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah one day in Toronto... There's stuff to do but... I dunno
― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 01:41 (eleven years ago) link
zing
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 01:44 (eleven years ago) link
Montreal in summer deserves your extra day more than toronto does imo.
i agree with these suggestions about jazz fest and biodome/insectarium/botanical gardens. parc jean drapeau is also great (also where the buckminster-fuller-designed biosphere is, and piknic electronik sunday-afternoon electro-danceparty too). i will likely be writing about summertime family things to do for tourism montreal in, like, May, so... stay tuned? probably mostly about kid-friendly stuff at festivals, parks, outdoors, museums activities, etc. The Montreal Circus Festival (Montreal Completement Cirque) will also be on in July and that's pretty kid friendly!
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 03:50 (eleven years ago) link
also i have been making a blog about montreal in summer as seen via g00glemaps http://summerstreetview.tumblr.com/
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
This is amazing
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 04:07 (eleven years ago) link
in my 10 or so years of on-again off-again blogging, i have never loved blogging more
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 04:34 (eleven years ago) link
Toronto is a city that reveals itself to you slowly
Great blog rrrobyn, ;_; at Lhasa de Sela Park is it actually called that? That is a nice park
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 05:09 (eleven years ago) link
re-naming it was a proposal last year - it's not official, probably nowhere near official yet really... i just edited that to make it more clear because i feel like this blog is also kind of a time capsule of sorts. there's a lot to write about it, brewing in my head. but posting pictures is so far more fun.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 05:13 (eleven years ago) link
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, February 4, 2013 10:50 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
all of this is awesome stuff i never ever do :/
― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 07:08 (eleven years ago) link
here's my fave
http://summerstreetview.tumblr.com/image/41443063374
― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 07:09 (eleven years ago) link
rrrobyn your streetview blog is the best
― schlump, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know if anyone here has seen Warm Bodies, but Montreal was such a lovely post-apocalyptic ruin in this.
― Ulna (Nicole), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
i haven't seen it yet but i did some freelance transcribing of interviews with actors, director, producers, etc and copyediting of production notes! i should see it; i like post-apocalyptic ruin
thanks for the blog <3that pic is one of my faves too. it's like can you even believe that that's there on streetview if you get the angle right? yep.
another idea i think is good for people visiting Montreal is to have a picnic in Jeanne-Mance Park one sunny afternoon. i would totally come and picnic with you guys, n/a!
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that is crooooooosh
― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
we're going to take s1ocki around the city with us and allow him to experience his childhood ... for the first time
yeah let's hang out, dudes
we're going to skip toronto, fuck toronto
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 15:56 (eleven years ago) link
i was trying to convince my wife that we should take a vacation from vegetarianism while we're in montreal but it devolved into a discussion about whether gravy has blood in it
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
haha.
there's plenty of veggies... but it would be a good place for a lil vacay.
you definitely have to go by marché jean-talon BTW.
― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
i genuinely wonder if wilensky's would be a little kid's fave restaurant of all time
― Bob-omb The Videogame Industry! (Will M.), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
well it's mine so
― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
i have just never seen a little kid in there, and i feel like it'd be so awesome to see a kid lose their mind about the soda & sandwiches <3
― Bob-omb The Videogame Industry! (Will M.), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
...or are kids these days too overstimulated to enjoy wilensky's?
― Bob-omb The Videogame Industry! (Will M.), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
Really? I've never eaten at Wilensky's and it's on my corner*goes to have lunch at Wilensky's*I love living here, by the way, in case you were wondering,
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
kids have baloney apps now theyd rather play on.
― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
i am vegetarian & feel pretty deprived when i walk past wilensky's. like walking past nice quietly majestic barber shops when you cut your own hair, the sadness of feeling ineligible. i could go get an egg sandwich & a coffee there but i feel like you need to be at least seventy five years old to make that order.
― schlump, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
i've ordered an egg sandwich there, back in my veggie days! get a pickle and an egg cream with it and you'l be fine.
― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
Fermé pour vacances ;_;
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
:(
― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
ha i never knew you were a vegetarian, was your switch back to full menu eligibility the opening of the foodie floodgates?
i used to go eat whatever you could get vegetarian at katz's, sometime, & it would baffle the counter staff. nothin? not even ham? how'd you get your b12?. actually kind of into the egg sandwich & coffee deal, now. i will take a newspaper. when it's open again.
― schlump, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
i was! in fact i'm working on a comic about how i stopped being a vegetarian now!
― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
haha, i would like to see that. i have a lot of affection for lapsed vegetarians because i feel like the period afterwards is always so grateful & enthusiastic. my friend started eating fish & it's like a whole freed prisoner thing, just constantly renewed wonder at how bright life can be. vegetarianism has its own stockholm syndrome thing, like you are condemned to spending time with mushrooms & slow-cooked onions but you learn to love those things as a result of your captivity.
― schlump, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
i still like mushrooms and slow-cooked onions :D
― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
vege-paté, alfalfa sprouts, and baby carrots dipped in hummus, now that's another story.
ha ha, you know one of the things i am really enjoying about montreal is its broad range of sprouts. in grocery stores, in those green plastic trays. i think they have a lot at PA on Parc. there are so many! asparagus pea shoots, sunflower seed sprouts. am really into the baby onion sprouts, they have this deep-purple poppy seed stem, it's alluring:
http://www.jungleseeds.com/images/OnionSprouts.jpg
but i am also sort of aware that this could be a barren arena in which to seek pleasure.
― schlump, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
I have pretty good childhood memories of Wilensky's and Deli Lester and then I became a boring vegetarian.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
what do u guys think of this article?
http://maisonneuve.org/post/2013/04/6/orientalism-gentrification-and-irony-parc-ex-respo/
in response to:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-and-wine/why-you-should-eat-in-park-ex-montreals-ungentrified-ethnic-food-paradise/article10682175/?page=2
?
― flopson, Monday, 8 April 2013 01:12 (ten years ago) link
i think the maisonneuve article is undergraduate garbage and i am smh-ing violently at everyone who's posted it to facebook
― zero dark (s1ocki), Monday, 8 April 2013 01:27 (ten years ago) link
What is the result of all this? Primarily, the “magical” Parc Ex portrayed by Gollner is one erased of struggle and conflict, hardship and exploitation. It’s so much like an enchanted frontier, in fact, that it’s “almost un-capitalist.” This, in a neighbourhood where few dare to jaywalk, for fear of the omnipresent police cruisers waiting to scoop up one of the many undocumented migrant workers living in the area. This, in a neighbourhood that’s become infamous for its slumlords and deplorable living conditions; its apartments without running water and crawling with cockroaches. This, in a neighbourhood where almost 20 percent of the population pays 50 percent of its monthly income in rent, and where 81 percent of the total population are tenants, facing a high risk of displacement with the encroachment of condo projects and university residences.
― flopson, Monday, 8 April 2013 01:35 (ten years ago) link
feel like that is a very dramatic characterization of parc ex
― flopson, Monday, 8 April 2013 01:36 (ten years ago) link
ya and i don't really see what that has to do with the article either
― zero dark (s1ocki), Monday, 8 April 2013 01:40 (ten years ago) link
ppl are really losing their minds about it
what dumb article.
― sofatruck, Monday, 8 April 2013 14:55 (ten years ago) link
this place is nice,https://www.facebook.com/pages/La-Tamalera-haute-cuisine-de-rue-mexicaine/149679951797182
i haven't found a lot of good mexican food here (though $2 taco tuesdays at cartel, in the same hood, are neat) & dug this place. it's new, v cute. i had hibiscus tacos.
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Monday, 29 April 2013 21:31 (ten years ago) link