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Canadian Thought Leaders

This week anyone who’s anyone really wants to be in California at this year’s TED conference. If you haven’t yet been introduced to the concept of TED, it’s a big annual meeting of some of the world’s brightest minds on a whole range of subjects. You can watch talks from previous conferences at www.ted.com
Canada of [...]

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Pushchairs are useless in Winter

When there is a good inch of snow on the ground pushchairs are useless as the wheels won’t turn. Effectively this means that a pushchair is useless in Montréal from December until April.
You won’t believe what’s used instead! A sledge of course! Once your little one can sit up straight, you dress them all warmly [...]

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Public Transport in Montréal

I was watching a video from TED.com the other day from a guy who was building a skycar. It’s a facinating video, but I expect it to be quite a few years until we’re all riding over the Saint Lawrence in such a vehicle.
One slide that Paul Moller, the head of Skycar, showed involved the [...]

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Montréal in Winter

Montréal receives quite some snow in winter covering it with a blanket of white. On average about 10 to 15cm of snow will fall per week, usually over one day. Locals will talk about snow “storms”; but in reality it just amounts to a lot of snow falling in one day.
Snow falls can be very [...]

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Snow in Montréal

This week we had our first major snow fall of the season here in Montréal. First it snowed, then it rained and then it snowed again. The rain turned to ice, so you have tree branches incased in ice and on the ground a layer of snow, ice and then more snow.
Here are some photographs:

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Ice Cider

Ice cider is a relatively new speciality from Québec. It’s quite a sweet drink with a slight fresh apple taste – definitely worth trying and something that will be becoming more popular.
It can be drunk as an aperatif, as a dessert wine, possibly after a meal – but I’m a bit less convinced about that.
The [...]

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Father Christmas Parade – Defilé du Père Noël

Every year in Montréal there is a parade welcoming Father Christmas (or Santa Claus) to the city. Parents and children line Montréal’s main shopping thoroughfare, la rue Saint Catherine as different floats and performances move along the road. Despite the sub zero temperatures (it was -5oc) everyone was in a good mood and enjoying the [...]

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The cold in Montréal

Winter is definitely on its way to Montréal. I popped out of the car this afternoon to fill it up with petrol in just a tee-shirt and jumper and my gosh, at the end I jumped back in the car again – it was so cold!!
Actually it was around -5 degrees celsius which is not [...]

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Cupcakes in Montréal

Cupcakes are a North American tradition and are very similar to Fairy cakes in the UK, or if I’m not being charitable “buns” as they’re sometimes called.
But my, it’s amazing what you can do with buns. Carrotte cake, squash flavour, lemon merangue flavour
… if that’s enough to tempt you then try out Petits Gateaux at [...]

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