A storytelling home by Léa Plourde-Archer

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She/her. Montrealer. Full-time freelance content creator, blogger and translator (French to English/ English to French). Currently working on several manuscripts about the life of composer Violet Archer (my great aunt).

Category: The outdoors

  • Lachine’s outdoor museum: a perfect place to look silly while riding bikes

    This summer, I made a promise to my boyfriend: We’d go biking together. The thing is that I hadn’t been on a bike in at least 10 years. I was secretly terrified and kept putting it off until it felt silly to do so. There was no way I would dare to ride on the…

  • Traveling the world by song: my travel bucket list through music

    I’m slowly working through my travel bucket list. Every few years I do a list of 10 countries I must visit before I die. When I get to cross one off the list, I add a new one in its’ place. I’m such a travel freak that whenever I’m not traveling, I feel the need…

  • Untapped Cities: discovering Montreal

    It’s been a while since I’ve linked to the articles I’ve written for Untapped Cities. Since June I’ve been writing two articles/month about fun, unique things to discover in Montreal. Here’s what I’ve been writing about: The environmentally friendly Ruelles vertes (green alleyways) being created behind the tightly packed facades of buildings in residential neighborhoods:…

  • Photo post: Chinatown storefront, Montreal

    A colorful storefront window in the small Chinatown located in Downtown Montreal.

  • Photo post: Chrysler building, NYC

    I’ve had a lifelong fascination with cities, particularly New York city. So far, I’ve been to the Big Apple 4 times in my life (we’ll be heading there again in November, can’t wait). Here’s a photo I took of the beautiful skyscraper that is the Chrysler building, during my trip in 2008.