2019 Montreal Archives - Travelling Minions

Planning for Montreal

ByTravelling Minion February 12, 2019 0 Comments

First Trip of the Year I'm about to leave on my first trip of the year! My first trip of 2019 will be to Montreal, Canada in February! I've been to Montreal before, albeit over a decade ago, so I was excited when the opportunity came up. Like I had mentioned in my 2018 Wrap up, I don't have many 2019 plans for travel. Flights and Accommodations And while this isn't exactly last minute, it did...

First days in Montreal

ByTravelling Minion March 29, 2019 1 Comment

To Montreal! Since we were flying within Canada entry into the domestic terminal was simply a pass through the security lines. Thankfully, if you are a Trusted Traveller then you have a dedicated security screening lane at YVR, which both Gimpy and I were. With security a breeze we had an hour and a bit to kill before our flight was to board. So we spent it in the YVR Domestic Plaza Premium...

Montreal Part 2!

ByTravelling Minion April 5, 2019 0 Comments

Breakfast at Faberge Our plan today is to spend it with a friend from home who moved to Montreal for her studies. We'll call her Wanderlost! We made plans to have breakfast at a place Gimpy had found called Faberge. We tried to arrive early since we'd read it gets quite busy on the weekend. Thankfully we were seated within minutes, since it filled up very quickly afterwards, and by the time we...

Day trip to Ottawa and our last day in Montreal

ByTravelling Minion April 12, 2019 0 Comments

Ottawa Since we were on this side of the country, Gimpy and I decided we wanted to day trip to Ottawa. We hadn't fully fleshed out our plans prior to arriving, but as our time in Montreal progressed we eventually settled on taking the early train from Montreal to Ottawa, to maximize our time in our nation's capital. We woke up at the unfortunate hour of 4:30 to take the subway to the train...