Earlier this week, we decided to take a trip to Saint Malo, in the heart of Brittany. This relatively small city has a particularity: a seaward fortress since the Middle Ages, St Malo still has a 1.8...
Paris viewed though my eyes.
The best places in Paris! A collection of photographs.
France is probably most famous for its "viennoiseries" -- sweet pastries. The croissant, of course, and also the pain au chocolat (sweet bread with a thin chocolate bar wrapped in the middle). Oh...
Of course, we were both a bit tired after spending almost two days in Montreal airport. That probably explained why my bank card was swallowed at the first ATM I used and why we didn't notice we were...
Plenty of time to think -- I've been stuck in Montreal airport for 24 hours in a row now. And I've just decided to stop being cheap and bought a Wifi access (can you believe we have to pay for Wifi...
But my most memorable "wrong place / wrong time" experience took place in 2001. Most people remember 9/11 very clearly. I remember October 7th, when the war started.
In Ontario, we have relatively small ice sculptures, but in Quebec, they were made of snow... and huge! Granted we had quite a lot of snow this year so building material was cheap.