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So my favourite store in Montreal is still open. I know for sure, because I checked. And bought a mask, which I collect. It’s good to keep track of these things. Montreal is one of Canada’s great cities. Again, I know for sure, because I used to live there. Which meant I didn’t have the same,ContinueContinue reading “Montreal, je t’aime”

Wednesday, we spent en route from Port Aux Basques to the very northwestern tip of Newfoundland, destination: L’Anse Aux Meadows National Historic Site, where there are the remains of an authenticated Viking encampment. It’s about an eight hour drive, and since our ferry had gotten in so late, we got a later start. But weContinueContinue reading “Where the Vikings came”

My feet have utterly given up on me. Toronto, at least the areas I explored today, is blessedly flat. I put 20 kilometres on ye olde feet today. Before dinner I had to hobble back to the hostel and put moleskin, along with socks and sneakers instead of my sandals, just to make it throughContinueContinue reading “On top of the world and the bottom of the ocean”