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).

Tag: photography

  • The beauty of the Saint-Lawrence river: a weekend in Trois-Pistoles, Quebec

    Two weeks ago, my family and I traveled to the lovely town of Trois-Pistoles for my grandparent’s sixtieth wedding anniversary celebrations. We all gathered in a charming cottage that my grandparents have been renting twice a year for the last decade. My grandparents have developed a longstanding love story with this area, having met in…

  • Picture post: Ile Sainte-Marguerite, near Cannes

    We visited the city of Cannes when we lived in the south of France for 4 months. Our day-trip happened in December, way off-season in terms of tourism. This meant that there wasn’t much to do. Cannes is a typical French Riviera town but with more cardboard cutouts of George Clooney and over-sized posters with Marilyn Monroe’s face on…

  • Photo post: The view from Mont Alban, Nice, French Riviera

    Those of you who have been following this blog for a while know that in the fall of 2009, I spent one semester abroad, studying in the south of France. In terms of school, it was a terrible experience. You can read a bit about it here if you’d like to know my thoughts on…

  • Dreaming of Istanbul: when a city casts a spell on you

    I still see myself at 15, spending hours skimming the pages of Taschen’s gorgeous book, Turkey: from the Seljuks to the Ottomans. I don’t know why but that country’s history and culture compelled me the minute I started to learn more about it. I developed a fascination for Hagia Sophia, the famous basilica turned mosque that…

  • Photo post: A Roman skyline

    A view of the Roman skyline as seen from Villa Borghese Gardens, on a beautiful day of fall.