Montreal for students and budget travellers
Discovering Montreal can be inexpensive and as exciting as you’d imagine Canada’s second biggest city can be. Packed with restaurants, clubs, bars, museums, galleries, and an old Port, Montreal combines charm and adventure into one big party city. Travelling doesn’t have to be expensive, though get ready to walk or buy a week-long tourist pack and take Canada’s most efficient transport system, the metro.
Montréal’s original Prima Donna
A century or so ago, it wasn't romantic tenors like Pavarotti, Domingo and Bocelli who were all the rage. It was the ladies who starred-on stage and in the media. Singers like Nellie Melba, Lucia Tetrazzini, Mary Garden-and a formidable little talent from Montréal, Pauline Lightstone-ruled. Grown men swooned over them.
The Montréal Experience and how to get it
If you're someone who thinks the rush to "globalization" has created an awful lot of "same-old same-old" in the world, you'll be heartened by a recent story in Gourmet magazine. In it, the journalists Jane and Michael Stern noted that the "onslaught of soulless fast food has been balanced by a resurgence of regional food" and applauded "a new generation who sustain what is now appreciated as local culture".
The Power of Poutine
An unsolved mystery remains adieu amongst a legend in Canadian culture. Through a genius moment of thought a historic event unravelled in which two men from two different towns both claim the fame. One day long ago, in the remote outskirts of Quebec, a concoction of the finest in greasy, heart-stopping ingredients was thrown together and there, a masterpiece was born. Mmmmmmmmmmmm...