Montreal, at first

We arrived yesterday afternoon around 1:00 pm after a 6.5 hour drive and I was instantly in love!  We settled into the apartment and changed our clothes to scope out the neighborhood.

It's absolutely lovely here and we're having a great time.  The weather has been perfect with clear skies and sunshine, abnormal for late November as we were told.  Tonight it's raining, but the temperature is lovely.
We've eaten great food (so much good bread here!!!), medium food, struggled with parking, ridden the Metro, met locals, met a lady called Binky from Delaware who owns an herbal/floral natural bakery/cafe/store on the corner of our street, spoke with a sweet old Sicilian guy in the market who scoffed at our vegetarianism ("Que pecado!") while trying to sell us olive oil in French and Italian and proceeded to tell us about his amazing grandkids, met a family from Monterrey Mexico who helped us locate the nearest Metro station, bought local chevre & porcini/olive oil mustard, window shopped (and drooled!), admired a LOT of artistic graffiti, learned local traffic & pedestrian rules...all the things that you experience in a foreign city.  Oh, and I'm learning some French too!!  It's wonderful.  I could live here :)

More to be explored...and off we go!