Homecoming reflections (TO, Mtl, Hfx)

[rousseau]

It's guess it's all subjective. What more can be written about Montreal that hasn't already been said? My wife and I are here right now, and we're feeling a lotta love. St. Laurent, Mile End, the Plateau, the majestic residential near McGill and in Westmount, the terrific Picasso exhibit at the Musee des Beaux-Arts, two delicious taco spots (La Capital in Chinatown, Tacos Tin Tan on Rachel), the enjoyably Seinfeldesque banter with the old guy at St. Viateur Bagel, the dependably friendly and unpretentious manner of every single person, young or old, to whom I declare in French that I'm practicing French so can we please speak French?

I could go on. And I mean that literally. There are several seat-of-our-pants observations about the social aspects of Montreal that my wife and I are nursing while we're here, though they could very well be banal, clichéd commonplaces. Maybe I'll jot them down in the forum anyway after the trip. Just for fun.