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This 3-Hour Road Trip From MTL Leads To A 100-Island Oasis Where You Can Swim All Day

If you're planning your Quebec summer bucket list and want to add an easy day trip or road trip from Montreal then try Parc régional du Poisson Blanc where you can swim, picnic, or sunbathe in a magical-looking wilderness setting made up of a hundred islands. 

If you're more into doing activities and watersports, you also have the option to canoe, kayak or standup paddleboard and hike on 17 kilometres of trails. There's fishing and rock climbing, too!

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Here's Why Everyone In Montreal Suddenly Seems To Have A Mullet

A March article from the Agence France-Presse notes the "improbable return" of the mullet — known in Quebec as the "coupe Longueuil." The article points to the surging popularity of the much-made-fun-of haircut among celebrities like Rihanna and Miley Cyrus.

But Montrealers need only walk out their doors to find local examples of the mullet revival. Anecdotes of multiplying mullets have been swirling from the Mile End to the Sud-Ouest.

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6 Bucket-List Beginner Hikes In Quebec That Will Give You All The Views

The weather in Quebec seems to be up and down lately, and like you, we're desperate for warm sunshine so we can explore all the gorgeous views Quebec has to offer — so much so that we're thinking of taking up hiking for beginners.

We've rounded up some of the best and easiest hiking trails in Quebec for your first spring or summer hike of 2021 in the province.

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I Only Ate Food From A Meal Subscription Service For A Week & Here’s What Happened

If nothing else, 2020 was the year of culinary trends. Dalgona coffee, sourdough bread, pancake cereal — we've all kept ourselves nice and busy in the kitchen as we adapted to the world around us. But lately, it's fair to say there's been a bit of a universal cooking rut. After all, there’s only so much banana bread you can bake before never wanting to see another banana again.

Seeing as we've begun a brand-new year, it feels like the perfect time to introduce new meal plans into your routine — especially if you're done with skipping meals due to lack of motivation or creativity. A great way to help out with that might be to subscribe to a meal subscription service, like Goodfood.  Plus, right now, you can get 6 free meals (3 free meals in your first 2 baskets) using promo code NARCITY6.

Goodfood is one of the biggest meal subscription services in Canada today; it all started with a simple goal, to help people prepare delicious, yet healthy meals from the comfort of their own home. Now, six years later, they're a team of close to 3,000 people helping deliver monthly meals across Canada.

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