After faffing on about Montreal’s traffic and frenchness last time, it’s probably right that this time I tell you what happened there. Somehow I timed my arrival with the very beginnings of the Montreal Fringe Festival. Well a few days earlier to be perfectly truthful. Emboldened by the excellent performance in Stratford I figured it would […]
Montreal prelude
Suitably refreshed from my unexpected stay in Cornwall, ON, it is time to hit Montreal Unbeknownst to me, Montreal is actually on an island – albeit an island separated from the mainland by rivers as opposed to oceans/seas/bays. It’s not really relevant, but hey, a little geographic education as we go can’t help. Montreal is the […]
Cornwall Curios.
After the wonderful delights of the bard, it was a bit of a slog back East towards Ottawa. Not really a slog as such. It’s only 650 k, but I’m in no hurry so I dawdle along for a few days. Not much to report, the highlight of the drive is a short trip on […]
It’s a mystery.
The delights of its beer scene, call centre shennanigans, and eye-opening public transport system are not sufficient to keep me in Toronto much longer. (Who would have thunk?) I’m still without a crystallised plan for Canada, somehow it seems compressed in a way America does not, and I do not want to just flit from major […]