Boston is one of the most appreciated getaways from Montreal, with reason – just under a 6 hour drive (a very short time in North American standards), it’s easily accessible on a weekend. Plus, with the important Irish and Italian communities that settled in Boston long ago, Montrealers feel right at home! And while New England is mostly popular during the fall – hello technicolor panoramas – my favorite time   Read More ...

Paris is always a good idea, Audrey Hepburn once said. And even in the cold freezing Paris winter, I can hardly beg to differ. I’ll take Paris rain or shine, in the autumn or the summer, with or without the Parisians (but mostly without, please). In fact, I’ll gladly take Paris just the way it is, anytime. This is probably the most photos I have ever published in a single post,   Read More ...

Few things get me more excited than visiting a new city. I tried, I really tried – but the countryside just doesn’t do it for me. Sure, it makes for a nice Sunday afternoon ride. A weekend getaway. But living there permanently? I’d say “Someone pass the arson” before I’d even reached the destination! So when this week’s theme was announced, I was beyond myself. I thrive in cities –   Read More ...

Let’s start with this – Copenhagen is an extremely photogenic city, for Instagrammers. While it has world-class architecture, gorgeous cobblestone streets and famous sights, it also has a sketchier, grittier side that only the most avid iPhoneographers will appreciate. I know I did! I took these three shots right around where I was staying, close to Rosenburg Palace Gardens. The area was particularly rich in street art, funky coffeeshops and   Read More ...

Fact 1: I travel for a living. Fact 2: I have a bad case of photography obsession. Fact 3: I have way too many beautiful, scenic photos to share. Fact 4: Many of them, however, are of Morocco. To celebrate the latest edition of #FriFotos, whose theme this week is “VIEWS”, and also to remedy to the fact that I haven’t written about Morocco in a while, I figured I   Read More ...

If you’ve read the news over the last couple of weeks, you’ve probably heard about the record-breaking snowfall that hit Montreal and the province of Quebec on December 27th. While it wasn’t a violent, windy snowstorm, the amount of snow – or as pessimists like to call it, white sh*t – that covered the city is quite spectacular. More than 45 cm in just a few hours! I lived through   Read More ...

Out of the roughly 80 photos I picked to highlight my year 2012, more than half were of Montreal. My beloved. My hometown. My other half. The city where my wanderlust erupted 6 years ago, and keeps expanding as I keep adding stamps to my passport. The one place I always come back to. And while my travel life kept me away from my city for the better part of   Read More ...

Very few things in life make me more happy than Christmas time. Except maybe chocolate, a British accent and kittens. Add Christmas to the lot and I’m ready for heaven. Perhaps it’s because I grew up in a country that celebrate Christmas like it’s going out of style, that gets vulgar amounts of snow and where you can always find a beer-belly, bearded uncle to dress up as Santa. I   Read More ...

Entering Chefchaouen is like walking into a dream. Wherever you’ve been in your travels, I can pretty much guarantee you’ve never seen anything like this before. An entire Medina – the core center of any North African city – awash in every single hue of blue known to mankind. Turquoise, aqua, cerulean, navy, you name it. So many words and superlatives could describe what is essentially Morocco‘s Bluest City, and quite   Read More ...

One of the most notorious things about Montreal is the vast diversity of cultures that populate the island. From Haitians to Algerians to Chinese, and from French to Irish to Peruvians, everybody finds their happiness in Montreal. Especially me. Because I’m a self-proclaimed glutton, and that my appetite is only matched by the amount of excellent restaurants to eat in. And what better place to start than the quirky Chinatown? But in   Read More ...