HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Welcome to my annual recap of the year: 2021 in pictures. Where was I last year? Ok ok, I know 1st of January is already past but I didn\’t want to post twice in a row so I waited a few more days. Wao. I can\’t believe 2021 is gone already. It…
This is my story of how I crossed Canada on the TransCanadian Highway from Montréal to Banff on my own, as a girl, with my car and remote working. Before I start, I wish you all a Merry Christmas! I had been writing this article for a while but it just comes out today! Click…
2020. Well.. That one was a blast, wasn\’t it? I guess what could sum up my year would be: Montreal – My couch. I was in my couch. All year. Stuck at home. That would not exactly be true though, but compared to my big plans for my 30th year, everything went down the wrong…
How it was like to live in Montréal during COVID-19. It wouldn\’t be fair to talk about 2020 without storytelling a bit about how COVID-19 went down around me. I know people only know what\’s in their country so I am going to try to describe the best I can what we lived in Canada…
10 years ago on the exact same day, on August 25th, I landed from Paris to Montreal for the first time. It was my first time in Canada, my first experience abroad for more than two weeks. When I look back I can see how far I have come but my love for Canada never…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Cabin in the woods: Favorite week end destination for Canadians [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The great thing about summer in Canada is what you do during the week ends. I don’t know if that is a rule for all Canadians but at least in Quebec, it seems that a lot of people own a cabin somewhere in the…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Le Domaine de la forêt perdue – Domaine Enchanteur (English: The Domain of the lost forest – The Enchanted Domain)[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Since I am back, I am trying to find everything I can do in winter and do them. First, I got to see the super blue blood Moon eclipse on January 31st (you can read…
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] MONTREAL, I AM BACK. [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]I felt so happy when the immigration girl gave me my work permit. I couldn’t believe it. I almost cried while looking for my luggage. What a relief. I was going to walk Montréal’s streets again as a Montrealer. I was going to have an address in Montréal, a job,…
I have lived in a weird way since I am back from New Zealand and our Road trip around the Pacific Ocean.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018 to you guys! My Year 2017. The year I drove more than 22 000km (more than the distance France-New Zealand), took 16 planes, 16 trains, stayed on the road for 2/3 of the year, walked 3 Great Walks of New Zealand, seen countless waterfalls, seen snow fall in 6 countries.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]This…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] International de Montgolfières @ Saint Jean sur Richelieu, Quebec, Canada. [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]We had been lying on the grass for some long minutes, waiting for the green light from the Balloon masters so we could see the hot-air balloon take off.[/vc_column_text][vc_images_carousel images=\”4278\” img_size=\”full\” onclick=\”link_no\” hide_pagination_control=\”yes\” hide_prev_next_buttons=\”yes\”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]It was our second attempt at seeing the hot-air balloons fly…
[vc_row full_width=\”\” parallax=\”\” parallax_image=\”\”][vc_column width=\”1/1\”][vc_column_text] Last year, I went to Niagara Falls with three friends in order to see them frozen. I already went twice to Niagara Falls. Once was in December 2009, and though it was very cold outside, they were not frozen like this time. The other time was earlier in September 2014 where…
[vc_row full_width=\”\” parallax=\”\” parallax_image=\”\”][vc_column width=\”1/1\”][vc_column_text]2014 was the year that changed it all for me. I did more in a year than in my twenty-three others. I thought I couldn\’t do better, though, 2015 surprised me. Last year, I did scariest things than I ever did. I can feel myself change. I decided that fear won\’t…
Ok, let\’s talk about summer. 2014 was the first summer I ever spent in Canada. The two other times I had been in Montréal, I arrived at the end of August and Summer was almost already gone. This time, I arrived mid-May, just when snow stopped falling (Yes, it snowed in Montréal at the begging of May 2014!), and summer was coming.
This is the best summer I have ever spent in my life. Between a big city and a small one, there is ALWAYS something to do in Montréal during summer! Always a festival or an activity to do. Sometimes, you will find yourself with several things at the same time.
I was surprised though because I thought it was always sunny in Canada during summer but that is not true. Actually, in MTL, it\’s raining quite a lot in summer and I wasn\’t prepared for that!
I can\’t say enough how much I love Montréal but this is a quick overview of the summer you can have.
People say we cannot forget our first love. Montréal is my first city love. It is the first city I really felt home and safe. It is the first city I wanted to go back to, live and work.
I went once in 2009 for 6 months and as soon as I went home I wanted to leave again.
My first step in Québec was feeling as the first step on the \”New World\”. I was Jacques Cartier in 1854. I was eager to see and experience new things. I had been living in Paris for two years before and the city had started to suffocate me. It felt liberating to be in Montréal. I loved everything about it. The ordered and large streets, the Québéquers who were so nice to me, the crazy buildings, the school I was enrolled in (Concordia University).
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