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Hotel Review: Quality Hotel Midtown in Montreal

Quality Hotel Midtown located at 6445 Decarie Blvd in Montreal

We stayed here from August 4 to 7, 2017. We have stayed in a previous Quality Hotels before and I found them to be very reliable in terms of cleanliness, affordability, safety, has free wi-fi, and comfortable. We got to Quality Hotel Midtown in Montreal by 5 p.m. and checked in. The check-in process was easy. I was impressed with how big the lobby and foyer were! I liked that they had free vehicle parking for guests. Continue reading →

Montreal 2017 Day 4: Going Home, Lunch at Casse-Croute Chez Tipit

Best random lunch on the road!

August 7, 2017: Our last day in Montreal was spent leaving and getting back to Ontario. We woke up and first enjoyed the continental breakfast at the hotel though which was pretty good.

It was the Civic long weekend so many other tourists were getting back home to the west as well. We left the hotel at around Continue reading →

Yay finally got to try Au Pied De Cochon!!

August 6, 2017: On this third day of touring around Montreal, we hit up brunch at a famous spot, hiked up Mount Royal, and visited a restaurant that I’ve been dying to eat at! 😀

We woke up early today by 8:30 a.m. and grabbed some food from the breakfast area in the hotel. Our plan was to hit up Restaurant L’Avenue (922 Mont-Royal Ave E, Montreal) because it was a restaurant that was famous for their brunch and you had to get there early to avoid the hour-long line-ups. The friend who recommended me to try it said the line-up for her when she went was nearly two hours long! Continue reading →

Weekly Photo Challenge: Silence

Markham, Ontario. January 2018

After a snowstorm in the winter, when you go out into the cold outdoors at night, there’s a certain silence that can’t be captured or put into words. It’s different from the silence in a library or the silence in your own room at night. The silence is almost muffled and it’s like the air is dead in a quieted state. There’s really no silence quite like it. Continue reading →

Day 6 in Changsha, China 2017: Orange Island Park, Clay Pot Rice, Airport

Visiting a local restaurant on the last day

September 18, 2017: The final day in Changsha was a fairly chill one. There was no set itinerary at all for this day as it was meant to be a fly-out day. Some tourmates had their flights back home or to another city early in the morning, some tourmates had them in the middle of the day, or like us, we had our flight back to Hong Kong at night. Thus, we had a full day in Changsha to do whatever we wanted (within reason though because Continue reading →