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| Wednesday, May 9, 2007 4:21PM | | | | Barnaby in French | Tags: vieira, montreal, smoked meat, gallimard, patrick valiquet, bon larron
| | | Last Thursday night Barnaby got drunk and woke up in Montreal. Calmly he got out of bed, washed his face, put on his corduroy suit, and tiptoed out of what turned out to be a bed-and-breakfast in the neighborhood Montrealers call “the gay village.” He found a diner nearby in which to have a croissant and cafe au lait, and after the watiress had asked for his order in what sounded like French, and he had replied likewise, he looked out the window and considered his options.
He saw a city with many pretty churches and parks, with excellent restaurants and a few good museums and universities, and the best baklava in North America; but a city, also, that was not entirely thriving,... | | | | | |
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