Comments | oudegueuze: walking in Montreal

oudegueuze

walking in Montreal

Jun 05, 2007 13:50

This past week I travelled up to Montreal for the Mondial de la Biere, the big festival that lasts for 5 days in early June that I attended the previous 2 years. In 2005 and 2006 I went for 4 days (it starts Wednesday and ends Sunday but the last day is usually pretty worthless); this year I only felt the need (and the $$) for the first two. One ( Read more... )

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frownyface June 5 2007, 22:40:28 UTC

I used to live near that weird architecture park. I still have no idea what it is....or if it truly exists.

little_helper June 5 2007, 23:44:28 UTC

That sounds amazing! I've only been to Montreal once.. but I was 19 and we were there for bars, not enjoying the finer things the city offers. This makes me want to go, zero knowledge of French be damned!

Taking a long walk in a new place/city is hands down my favorite thing to do when visiting. Really, what better way to kill time? A month or so ago Jared and I had a morning in Manhattan to ourselves so we just shrugged our shoulders and walked from 72nd street down to Alphabet city, walking through and past many famous and interesting places, and ending up at the best hole in the wall bar EVER. I wish I could do that again right now.

sixty5rocket June 6 2007, 23:39:36 UTC

I agreee with Erin. I love exploring by walking.

Now I wish I had visted Montreal when I lived closer...ah well.

Hi Meg oudegueuze June 7 2007, 14:09:12 UTC

Yeah nothing's better than walking. Lately (for the past 9 months) I've been contemplating moving to Minneapolis, which is a good, but not great walking city, sort of in the same category as Chicago. Montreal and New York are upper-echelon but I'm not up for moving to Canada and NY is out of my price range, among other considerations.

little_helper June 8 2007, 02:47:12 UTC

What? Chicago is a great walking city. I mean, there are sidewalks EVERYWHERE. :)

sidewalks alone don't make it... oudegueuze June 8 2007, 06:52:34 UTC

I love Chicago as much as anyone, don't get me wrong...it's just that the neighborhoods one (safely) can or would want to walk in are somewhat circumscribed -- in Montreal and Manhattan and much of Brooklyn, you feel like you can just go for hours and keep finding interesting new things...I don't quite get than in Chicago or the Twin Cities. They're very good --- being a numbers/ratings/statistics-oriented geeky guy, I'd say they're B+ to Montreal's A- and New York's A.