Make sure to swing by Quebec City while you're in the area! (Assuming you've never been here.) It's a 3-hour drive, but well worth it. Hands down the most beautiful city I've ever lived in, and very different from Montreal. :)
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I visited Quebec City and stayed a couple nights on Île d'Orléans on a trip last year to visit a friend who lives near Ottawa. It was amazing. I still haven't been to Montréal, and I'm making plans to attend my first Worldcon since 2016.
aug 26, 2025, 1:30 am • 3 0 • view
imho, Montréal is the Los Angeles of Canada, and Quebec City is the San Francisco of Canada. 😌
aug 26, 2025, 1:32 am • 2 0 • view
I feel like that undersells Montreal culture. Anytime I go there, I feel like an orc in Lothlorien.
aug 26, 2025, 1:36 am • 4 0 • view
I love that "in the area" for you is "opposite end of the country" for me.
aug 24, 2025, 8:51 pm • 16 0 • view
… and since you'll be in Canada, why not see the beauty of B.C.'s Sunshine Coast?
aug 24, 2025, 8:52 pm • 13 0 • view
Because mosquitos! Pharmacist: oh, you are a super reactor! Me: what does that mean? Him [pointing to my scarlet arm]: that! (I am now the proud owner of a mosquito blouse I bought in BC. Gorgeous place.
aug 25, 2025, 9:01 am • 8 0 • view
A super-reactor? Is that what powers the mech suits in Pacific Rim?
aug 25, 2025, 9:16 am • 4 0 • view
I'm telling you, on that day, the heat from my arm could have powered DC.
aug 25, 2025, 11:02 am • 4 0 • view
*ouch* still...
aug 25, 2025, 12:49 pm • 4 0 • view
It’s just next door… ok, next ocean, same difference. 😇
aug 24, 2025, 9:50 pm • 5 0 • view
I hiked the Pacific Crest Trail in 2022... After that, almost everything seems walkable. 🙃
aug 24, 2025, 9:52 pm • 5 0 • view
It's within walking distance*! ;) *technically
aug 24, 2025, 8:53 pm • 7 0 • view
Aha! You live in England, were 100 miles away is a long way, as opposed to North America, where 100 years ago is a long time
aug 25, 2025, 9:19 am • 5 0 • view
As the expression goes in America (and even more so Canada) one hundred years is a long time, in Europe one hundred miles is a long distance.
aug 25, 2025, 9:26 am • 3 0 • view
A hundred miles in the US, you’re in another state; in Europe you’re in another country; in the UK you’re in the sea.
aug 25, 2025, 9:31 am • 7 0 • view
Well, east to west, maybe.
aug 25, 2025, 11:07 am • 1 0 • view
You can never get more than 70 miles from coastal waters in the UK.
aug 25, 2025, 12:03 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes, but you can easily travel a hundred miles or more in one direction if you are going north to south (or vice versa) without ending up in the water.
aug 25, 2025, 12:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh yes, we did 180 miles yesterday to get home, largely in a straight line, did not get our feet wet.
aug 25, 2025, 2:19 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 25, 2025, 2:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Not with my sense of direction.
aug 25, 2025, 4:13 pm • 5 0 • view
Okay, so never get in a car Adrian is driving is my takeaway here.
aug 25, 2025, 4:14 pm • 3 0 • view
Honestly good advice for a number of reasons.
aug 25, 2025, 4:21 pm • 3 0 • view
*takes notes*
aug 25, 2025, 5:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Scotland???
aug 25, 2025, 11:01 am • 1 0 • view
If only like deep one hybrids we could return to the sea...
aug 25, 2025, 9:35 am • 1 0 • view
I mean you can, just not for very long.
aug 25, 2025, 9:43 am • 1 0 • view
'One day my gills will come...'
aug 25, 2025, 9:58 am • 3 0 • view
I mean, on the scale of the universe... 🤣
aug 24, 2025, 8:51 pm • 4 0 • view