Overseas
ENI like this Anglo-Saxon expression. Overseas: literally "beyond the seas, overseas". To understand: "elsewhere, abroad".
A promise of other continents and distant horizons. The more I am caught up in daily life, the more I dream ofoverseas. Always, this irresistible desire for elsewhere...
I promise, I will come back to tell you about Asia, very soon. From my last escapade, in July, I still have to tell you about my island stay in Derawan, off Borneo, in the Celebes Sea. And then to edit my underwater videos shot in Sipadan...
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But since my return, at the end of July, another overseas trots in my head.
A still vague project. I was hoping to make it happen in the spring, maybe. And then, a miraculous and unexpected free time slot appeared in my September schedule, at the very end of the month. Ah, there, there... How could I resist?
So here it is: I decided to cross a new ocean, to go across the Atlantic. Destination? Montreal!
E-ticket booked on Corsair, found with the excellent search engine Partirou.com.
All I have to do now is read the travel guide Montreal from the Quebec publisher Ulysses. thanks to Pascalfor his advice on the subject, always wise. And to think that I still haven't found the time to dive into it... (Note that there is also a digital version to download, like the Lonely Planet.)
Anyway, for once, I don't take my diving equipment with me and I fly to the West instead of heading to the East!
A first for me. I have never set foot on the American continent before. The two times I took a transatlantic flight, I stopped just before, In the Caribbean.
In Montreal, I'm going to visit some friends, who are living there for a year. And I hope to finally meet, "in real life", my colleague Marie-Julie Gagnon.
No bubbles in the forecast, therefore, for this Canadian week. But new discoveries, a change of scenery of another kind. An American and urban trip in French-speaking countries, which promises to be fascinating.
How I love to feel that little trepidation inside, that excitement that is reborn with each new travel project. It's more than impatience. An irrepressible desire to go and see elsewhere... overseas.
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Bretonne des Amériques, in short 😉
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Great! I think you'll like it. I don't know Canada, but if it's anything like the USA, it's the sheer size that hits you the first time.
I hope I too can make this trip, but it will be in the spring if it happens. Inch'Allah!
Enjoy! 😀
Hello Corinne,
I've lived in Montreal all my life and I'm sure you'll love my city! 🙂
I'd offer to guide you, but from what I understand you'll be staying with locals?
We had a very rainy summer, but since the beginning of September, the sun has been out almost every day. 15 degrees at night, 25 degrees during the day.
You do well to leave your diving equipment at home! Here you have to travel a long way to make a meaningful dive, and it's so cold! 14mm wetsuit minimum, even in midsummer! That's why a large percentage of Quebecers spend at least 2 weeks a year in the Caribbean... (Cuba, Mexico, Dominican Republic). Many senior citizens spend their entire winters in the south, and we call them ”snowbirds”. They leave in November and return when the winter wears off in April.
You stay only 1 week? Do you want to focus on Montreal or do you think of going out of the city?
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I'm looking forward to hearing your impressions of this city, which I visited in the middle of February; in -20degrees, but “feels like -27degrees”!!!!
You will actually be far from your bungalows and fish ... but ... you should appreciate the change of scenery.
@PascalK: For a few days, only ...
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@RolK: I'll try to deliver my impressions live here, as I do when I'm in Asia. Montreal should be better connected than Derawan.
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@Will: “Snowbirds”, that's pretty... I think in a week I'll take the time to do a little out-of-town escapade too. Both locals and visitors have praised the fall colors.
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@ Helen: -20 ° C? No way. But can we really feel a difference between -20 ° C and -27 ° C? Brrr. On even before the cold winter, it will change me from my tropical getaways ...
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You bet we're going to run into each other! I want your flight schedule, I've got a photo series to do (http://taxibrousse.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/sur-le-vif/)! 😉
@ Marie-Julie: I was sure you were going to tell me about it!!! 😆 😆 😆
There's no way I'm going to end up portrayed on your blog after an 8-hour flight where I wouldn't have slept a wink, my face a mess and my eyes glassy.
(No, it's just that I must heal my image nowme, madam. (Although, with a mask and a snorkel, nobody will notice anything.)
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