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TRAVEL NOTEBOOKS AND PLANNING FOR A TRIP TO MONTREAL

Saturday, October 4th, 2008 | Permalink

Meg and I are getting ready for a week-long trip to Montreal. In the past, when we prepared to travel to a new city, I would photocopy maps out of a travel guide and paste them into a Moleskine to make little customized itineraries:

my old moleskine travel notebook

Now Moleskine has their own line of reasonably-priced Moleskine City Notebooks that include nice color maps and transparent overlays that make things even easier:

moleskine city notebook montreal

Here are things we’re hoping to hit (thanks to the great cartoonist and Montrealite Matt Forsythe for some of the recs!):

It’s been a long time since we’ve been out of Austin, let alone Texas, and this is my first visit to Canada, so we’re really excited and dusting off our French skills.

If anybody has any recommendations for things to see / do / eat while we’re there, please leave them in the comments!

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3 Responses to “TRAVEL NOTEBOOKS AND PLANNING FOR A TRIP TO MONTREAL”

  1. sarah Says:
    October 4th, 2008 at 9:25 pm

    • 24 hour Montreal Bagels on Rue St. Viateur.
    Cream cheese, smoked salmon paté wandering around the neighbourhood.
    • Keeping an eye out for Roadsworth’s artworks.
    http://www.woostercollective.c.....x_min.html

  2. Heather Says:
    October 4th, 2008 at 9:46 pm

    Make sure when you go to Mount Royal Park that you stop by Beaver Lake. It’s a man-made lake and the park around it is great for a nice walk, especially in the fall!

    Also, you might have to search a bit to actually get a chance to practice your French, especially if you’re sticking to downtown and the West bit of the island. So make sure you check out the East End too!

  3. Austin Kleon Says:
    October 6th, 2008 at 11:26 am

    Thanks, Sarah and Heather!

    More advice sent in:

    For breakfast/brunch, if you’re there over a weekend, you need to check out Reservoir on Duluth just “east” of St. Laurent. (Montreal east is pretty close to north north-east on a map.)

    If you are a beer fan, then you should definitely go to Dieu du Ciel on Laurier and St. Urbain — it’s a brewpub. They have usually fifteen beers on tap, most of which are very good.

    And if you’re into burgers, you could head to La Paryse on Ontario and Sanguinet. They give you crayons to draw on the place mats.

    Afterwards, go next door to the Distillery for a one-litre Mojito served in a mason jar…

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