The Blork Blog

Image from The Wooden Monkey Restaurant in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Used without permission (but I’m sure they won’t mind…).

October’s monkey is “Dining Horror Stories.” Tell us about a bad or strange experience you had while dining at someone else’s home. Restaurants don’t count.
Was the cooking exceptionally bad? Did you have a gas attack? Did [...]

As everyone in Montreal knows, if you want to eat you go to The Plateau. Or maybe Mile-End. Little Italy is also a good bet, as is the Quartier-Latin (if you like lineups for food that is acceptable but should never be lined-up for). Heck, I’ve eaten well in Westmount, NDG, downtown, and even Vieux [...]

Martine has a review and a photo album posted about our trip to Nova Scotia!

I like the idea of good old fashioned ocean liner travel. Someday I’d like to cross the Atlantic on an ocean liner. Very, very civilized.
Then there are cruise ships. That’s a whole other thing. Expecially when it comes to cruises like this one.
(Via YouGeek.ca.)

As Martine and I drove around the Cabot Trail from east to west, the weather was brisk and blowy but not at all unpleasant. The sky was a mix of sun and dramatic clouds, providing an excellent overhang to the mountain and sea views. By the time we got to Cheticamp on Monday evening, however, [...]

Here are some panoramas from our recent trip to Nova Scotia. Under each image is a link to pop up a big one in a new window. The big ones are 1600 pixels wide, but your Web browser might resize them to fit in the browser. If so, they will appear a lot smaller.
Main-à-dieu, [...]