What kind of farshtunkeneh map doesn't have a scale, inches to miles, or if I want to speak Canadian, centimetres to kilometres. I'll tell you what kind. Mine. I'll have to get Ron, the distance whiz, to figure it all out for me.
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Spotted this on Monkland in NDG (Notre-Dame-de-Grâce), the quartier in Montreal where I live. Very chic. Beats the milk carton carrier you see on most bikes.
[Monkland between Harvard and Oxford] Am I the only one who didn’t know my iPhone was counting my steps behind my back? My son told me to open up the Health app and now I’m obsessed with steps and distance. Before, I could have cared less. This project was never about how many kilometres I covered.
I have a habit of standing and staring in front of stone walls along my route. When passersby see me going nose-to-nose with a wall, they probably think I’m off my meds, but actually I’m looking for fossils. Usually I come up empty, but today I found some! It’s cheating a bit because the wall in question is in the back of Upstairs Jazz bar, on their terrasse. Normally I operate like a Google car, only what I observe from the street counts, but I decided to make an exception in this case because walking long distances is a lot of work, and you have to eat. Furthermore, I highly recommend Upstairs for a great lunch. I can't take credit for finding the one below. I learned about it on McGill Rocks tour. It's a gastropod (I think), and is in the low wall surrounding the Mount Royal Club on Sherbrooke West.
The map! I went to Librarie Ulysse, the travel bookstore, to buy a map of the Island of Montreal. Simple, non? Not so much. The best map they had cuts off the streets around the edges of the island, like the street I live on for example. Also, it has a big inset the obliterates the whole of Verdun, so any kilometres walked there don't count. So all you people who live in Verdun, mea culpa. I won't be chronicling your corner of the island, as much as I love it.
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