Montréal is bursting with colour in October. The trees in the parks and on the mountain (in the middle of the city) are ablaze with yellow, crimson, and yes, green, and the weather is turning cooler so people are starting to wear clothes again! The city’s extraordinary summer party and festival life is waning and [...]
T.S. Eliot was wrong – April is not the cruelest month, at least not in Montréal, where that honor belongs to November. November. That cruel angry month that comes after the colorful transition of October, but before the festive year-end of December. Those vicious thirty days when the last warmth of summer lies dead under [...]
As I write this, the air outside my apartment is breaking a record for warmth, despite the fact that this was also close to the snowiest February on record, and a mere week-and-a-half ago one couldn’t even walk the unplowed streets without snow shoes. Three snowstorms in short succession had buried the city, and it [...]
The editors at BootsnAll are, no doubt, annoyed at the lateness of this dispatch. My first column of the new millennium and it arrives a third of the way into the month. To make amends, I will promise not to use the word “millennium” again until the year 2999. In my defense, however, I will [...]
BootsnAll takes a spin around the globe to reveal cities with more than their fair share of attractive people.
