due to the anti-Anglo moving day conspiracy, I hear
(joeks)
― mh, Thursday, 27 June 2013 03:35 (ten years ago) link
we're here. just wandered around rue st-denis and ate pizza and had our credit card rejected at the grocery store five minutes after it worked fine at the pizza place. serious tourism begins tomorrow.
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 1 July 2013 00:38 (ten years ago) link
I got hella lost driving thru Montreal a couple weeks ago
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Monday, 1 July 2013 01:32 (ten years ago) link
p sure you live in america, you were real lost
― szarkasm (schlump), Monday, 1 July 2013 01:36 (ten years ago) link
It's an island, just take any road for long enough and you'll get out or end up in the water
― mh, Monday, 1 July 2013 02:31 (ten years ago) link
i might be in montreal on the 4th
― tpp, Monday, 1 July 2013 08:06 (ten years ago) link
we fappin or what
― flopson, Monday, 1 July 2013 14:44 (ten years ago) link
yes! will ilxmail you flops when i know for sure
― tpp, Monday, 1 July 2013 15:31 (ten years ago) link
we ate at petit alep tonight, it was really good
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 00:10 (ten years ago) link
yes!!
are you having a good time?
sorry the weather has been shitty... this is usually the good time of year, weather-wise, but this has been a bummer summer.
what are you doing next? need any suggestions or anything?
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 12:59 (ten years ago) link
we are having a great time! weather has been pretty good imo, yeah it's been cloudy but it hasn't been rainy or sweltering so that's ok with me. the main touristy things we haven't done yet are go up mount royal (because of the cloudiness) and parc jean drapeau (also because of the cloudiness), also we have tickets to the insectarium but haven't done that yet.
i guess we mainly need suggestions of less touristy things to do, like neighborhoods that you can walk around and see cool things and then find a good restaurant to eat at.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 18:02 (ten years ago) link
obv there's tons of that right around where we're staying but it was also fun going over to wherever the marche jean talon and petit alep are and just walking around
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 18:05 (ten years ago) link
have you done the jean-talon market then a picnic in jarry park thing yet?
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 18:05 (ten years ago) link
oh. there ya go.
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 18:06 (ten years ago) link
i would also suggest a stroll around the parc lafontaine environs.
have you done old port? you can walk around there and get a lobster roll out of a shipping container at muvbox!
It's another year of JFL, which means another year of them making a big flashy website where you have to click through images to see everything that's playing. I inevitably miss something each year because the site is so miserable. Is there some website out there with a decent search function (or even better -- one where I can ctrl+f through it) and less of this newfangled flash/xml/java/actionscript/etc eyeball clusterfuck bullshit?
― I've Seen rRootage (Will M.), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 18:31 (ten years ago) link
we were in the vicinity of old port this morning but i don't know if we did old port. we walked along the water for a while but down near the weird spa boat and then wandered around old montreal.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 18:42 (ten years ago) link
you basically did it.
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 19:21 (ten years ago) link
JFL website is worst
so the worst, ugh, it makes no sense!! i just want to see a list of shows! but no, it's a fucking maze. hahaha indeed.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 19:55 (ten years ago) link
i have been so busy these days. ironically, mostly writing about things to do in montreal...perhaps go out to the insectarium on friday if still here then? there's this thing at olympic stadium, which is close by to the botanical gardens/insectarium, called First Fridays, in the afternoon, where there are food trucks and activities for kids.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 19:57 (ten years ago) link
olympic stadium is a giant concrete behemoth far from downtown (though has two metro stations!) that the city/province has been trying to revitalize with events like this. but the stadium just dwarfs everything and makes people, well, me at least, feel insignificant and alone. i still have a weird hope for it though.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 19:59 (ten years ago) link
it's sad that there is no baseball :(
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 20:01 (ten years ago) link
;_;
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 20:04 (ten years ago) link
tbr the terribleness of the jfl website was factor #2 in not coming to Montreal this week
― pink, fleshy, and gleeful (sic), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 20:15 (ten years ago) link
though just noticed on twooter two Mexican friends from Sydney are there today, d'oh
realized that if you click on any 2-for-30 show and click the "buy with another show for 30" button it BRINGS YOU TO A LIST THAT YOU CAN COPY INTO NOTEPAD OR EXCEL
WHY IS THIS NOT AVAILABLE IN AN EASIER WAY
anyway i am picking shows in fucking excel now so THAT'S better
― I've Seen rRootage (Will M.), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 21:36 (ten years ago) link
we've already been to the botanic garden and the biodome, so i am very familiar with the olympic stadium. but i didn't know about first fridays so thanks for that tip!
we have just for laughs in chicago too and its website is also hard to navigate. we managed to go and see maria bamford anyways.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 22:32 (ten years ago) link
oh also, there is this free outdoor circus show with 40 acrobats climbing a tower thing at square/park at the corner of berri and ste-catherine every night at 7 and 10 - http://montrealcompletementcirque.com/en/evenement/babel/ i know downtown is not the place one always wants to be, but this is pretty cool i think, esp for kids
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 4 July 2013 03:03 (ten years ago) link
also there should be a food truck or two around there too, but I don't know which ones
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 4 July 2013 03:04 (ten years ago) link
There are a million websites that purport to show you the location of the food trucks, but none can seem to manage the incredibly complicated operation of putting a pin on a map and then taking it away again.
Had an idea. What about a food truck that's just a bakery that drives around and has fresh bread.
― fields of salmon, Thursday, 4 July 2013 04:02 (ten years ago) link
Heels on wheels
― I've Seen rRootage (Will M.), Thursday, 4 July 2013 13:30 (ten years ago) link
I will be there in October for a bachelor party. Montreal seems to have a certain reputation for debauchery. Residents, is this truly the case?
― More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Friday, 5 July 2013 13:12 (ten years ago) link
I wish my passport was up to date -- I'd drive up to MTL next week.
― WilliamC, Friday, 5 July 2013 13:16 (ten years ago) link
didn't make it up to montreal yday. i'm in ottawa with my gf and we have been busy visiting family etc. gonna drive up tomorrow (sat) and stay overnight so could fap then if anyone is free.
― tpp, Friday, 5 July 2013 15:24 (ten years ago) link
my own bachelor party was in montreal, and when i told the canadian immigration official at the airport why i was visiting, she gave me a dirty look
we just went to a habs game and got drunk and saw quebecois ac/dc cover bands tho
― mookieproof, Friday, 5 July 2013 21:37 (ten years ago) link
I don't know if the debaucherous reputation is justifiedbut it's got some good male nudie barscan't fap because deadlines but if you see me working in the mornings at Olimpico say hi
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 5 July 2013 22:09 (ten years ago) link
u live in montreal?
― flopson, Friday, 5 July 2013 22:57 (ten years ago) link
sure do
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 5 July 2013 23:27 (ten years ago) link
my move was talked about in the Toronto thread but yeah, I moved here last December. I have never been happier in a city as I have been these past months :)
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 5 July 2013 23:29 (ten years ago) link
we're leaving early tomorrow, sorry we couldn't meet up with anyone but we had fun. i liked doing the touristy stuff but had the most fun just wandering around mile end/plateau. best places we ate were petit alep, st-viateur/fairmount, beauty's, aux vivre (twice), and au kouign-amann (twice).
― congratulations (n/a), Saturday, 6 July 2013 00:25 (ten years ago) link
au kouign-amann (twice)
What the hell is this?
― fields of salmon, Saturday, 6 July 2013 01:13 (ten years ago) link
bakery with delicious croissants and kouign d'amann.
i figured you'd already know about it since you already know about the "terrible food" in this city.
― sean gramophone, Saturday, 6 July 2013 01:32 (ten years ago) link
hahahaha I love how people remember internet message board trolling I did like five years ago.
― fields of salmon, Saturday, 6 July 2013 01:57 (ten years ago) link
or two posts ago tbf
― pink, fleshy, and gleeful (sic), Saturday, 6 July 2013 02:08 (ten years ago) link
i'm glad you all had fun, n/a! :)
i went to the Guy Maddin open filming at the Phi Centre today - it is really great! like, just fun, and he is so nice! the "audience" area is small but really close to the set(s). it's all quite efficient really, since he's filming 12 films in 13 days. Saw Roy Dupuis acting as some kind of caveman character today.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Saturday, 6 July 2013 20:27 (ten years ago) link
happy you guys had a good time too. what's your last night all about?
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Saturday, 6 July 2013 23:12 (ten years ago) link
Taking the train from Kingston to Montreal today, traveling with the family, staying in a hotel in the old city for 3 nights. Any suggestions for family friendly activities or endroits? We've got a 6 year old and a 3 year old. Any restaurants we should check out?
― Plasmon, Monday, 8 July 2013 12:06 (ten years ago) link
OK so what are some good neighborhoods in which to stay Montreal for a couple of nights? I am looking at AirBnB.
― Chantal Anchorman (admrl), Thursday, 15 August 2013 15:52 (ten years ago) link