New Year’s Plans

~ Clarissa

Guess who will be spending New Year’s in the most beautiful, amazing, phenomenal, exquisite, and sophisticated city of Montreal?

It is unbelievable that I have never had an opportunity to show the city I love so much to the man I love even more. N. has never been to Montreal but he has listened patiently to me gushing about the beauty of the city I call home for years.

Now I will get to take him to Montreal and show him all of the places in Montreal that mean so much to me. I’m so happy that I think I’m going to cry.

I will be in Montreal between December 28 and January 2. Of course, now I will have to work out a tight schedule to make sure we get to experience everything I have planned. Some of the highlights of the trip will be:

1. A walking tour from the house on St. Mathieu St. where I lived as a student down Sherbrooke St. to the house next to Parc Lafontaine where I worked on my doctoral dissertation in 2007-8 with stops at all of the significant places that have personal meaning for me on the way.

2. A visit to Stogies Bar on Crescent. Oh, the memories. . .

3. A walk down St. Laurent and then up St. Denis.

Of course, I know it will be cold and snowy and the Russian person among us hates the snow and the cold. Go figure.

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11 thoughts on “New Year’s Plans”

    1. I hope N likes it as much as I do. I can’t be with a person who doesn’t worship Montreal. It’s OK that N doesn’t worship my God – or any other god – but Montreal is sacred.

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    2. Right David. Don’t go to Montreal if the woman you love will not be there. Happy New Year to you and your woman!.

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  4. I’m heading to Montreal at the end of the month, and it will be my first visit! I’ll mostly be too busy to do much sight seeing I think, but I may have one or two evenings where I can wander around on my own. I’ll be right in the middle of down town. If there is one thing you could suggest a Montreal-newbie to see at night, and one restaurant to go to, what would recommend? Thanks for the advice!

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