I'm enjoying being in Montreal, and doing ordinary things here, more thahn I'd expected. Ordinary things like riding the metro, and changing plans when the restaurant we'd wanted to go to turned out not to be open for lunch, so getting back on the metro.
So we got back on the metro, took it to Berri-UQAM, and had lunch at Frites Alors! I had the "poutine la chou ya," poutine with Cantonese-style shredded roast duck, scallions, and sesame seeds, in a smewhat Chinese-inflected variation on the usual poutine gravy. A felicitous combination, for which I may be exactly the target audience, because it ocmbined two things I really like.
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rysmiel; I hadn't been so aware of missing the experience of walking through a subway station and finding it familiar, because I remember the last time I got out there. But I've spent 18 months almost entirely in the same few neighborhoods of Belmont, Cambrige, Arlington, and Somerville.
I also bought my first timed transit pass since March of last year, a three-day pass that is valid for the airport bus. Not because I expect to be dashing around town today and tomorrow, but because the airport bus costs $10, and if I hadn't bought the 3-day pass I would have had to pay that plus the cost of a ride on the bus and metro to connect to the 747. And this is a very me thing, doing that calculation. (I'm not using the MBTA nearly enough to justify a monthly or a seven-day pass, and the SL1 from the airport and the red line connection are free.)
ETA: Looking for info oncattitude and adrian's vaccination dates, I was reminded that I'd bought a 7-day T pass in early May, thinking that I might use it enough to pay for itself that week, and liked not thinking about whether it was worth paying the fare for a short bus ride.
So we got back on the metro, took it to Berri-UQAM, and had lunch at Frites Alors! I had the "poutine la chou ya," poutine with Cantonese-style shredded roast duck, scallions, and sesame seeds, in a smewhat Chinese-inflected variation on the usual poutine gravy. A felicitous combination, for which I may be exactly the target audience, because it ocmbined two things I really like.
I knew I'd missed
rysmiel; I hadn't been so aware of missing the experience of walking through a subway station and finding it familiar, because I remember the last time I got out there. But I've spent 18 months almost entirely in the same few neighborhoods of Belmont, Cambrige, Arlington, and Somerville. I also bought my first timed transit pass since March of last year, a three-day pass that is valid for the airport bus. Not because I expect to be dashing around town today and tomorrow, but because the airport bus costs $10, and if I hadn't bought the 3-day pass I would have had to pay that plus the cost of a ride on the bus and metro to connect to the 747. And this is a very me thing, doing that calculation. (I'm not using the MBTA nearly enough to justify a monthly or a seven-day pass, and the SL1 from the airport and the red line connection are free.)
ETA: Looking for info on
cattitude and adrian's vaccination dates, I was reminded that I'd bought a 7-day T pass in early May, thinking that I might use it enough to pay for itself that week, and liked not thinking about whether it was worth paying the fare for a short bus ride.Tags:
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Used to ride in from Logan very intoxicated, and become somewhat less so after the walk up the College Street hill in Davis. Not quite to the Powderhouse, but enough of a climb that it did burn some of the ingested Johnnie Walker (courtesy of Air Canada...)
Been almost eighteen months since I last set foot in Somerville.
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I miss Montreal.
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