streets

today i wanted to check some music shops and i found out that a lot of these shops are on rue sainte catherine (the local meir). so off i went! it looked like all the shops of montréal are located on rue sainte catherine. and it started snowing (for the first time since i arrived).

for us europeans who are used to small streets and old city centers, streets in montréal seem ridiculously long. streets cross the city from south to north, or west to east. an address like "rue blaise pascal n° 8100" takes you nowhere. to remedy this, they often refer to the nearest street crossing the street you actually have to be.