hmm
youtube what is up welcome back to montreal today we are in a neighborhood called
ocholega mesonnuf let me know if my pronunciation is way off just be nice about it okay i'm trying
my best but uh yeah this is a really cool neighborhood in the east side of montreal
i've only walked through here a couple times but uh we're gonna be learning all about it today
in fact i just started outside of a metro station called uh i'll check this dude out
what's the deal with those one wheels i see those everywhere
it makes me feel like i'm in the future or something
anyway yeah i just got outside of the metro station prefontaine it was a cool little
park over there some skateboarders some construction of course and we even had uh
this weird pink looking bench maybe a sign of things to come because there's some interesting
stuff going on in this neighborhood i can already tell what's up bro what's up man how are you good
how are you doing today good good ready to visit my neighborhood i'm ready i'm ready let's do it
all right so pierre i saw you just left your bike back down the street yeah is orchard lego the
kind of neighborhood where like you worry about that kind of thing you feel safe here what's the
vibe like in this part of montreal i don't know honestly like a lot of people say it's kind of
not dangerous but you know that's not the safest place i would say uh-huh but still i
don't know i didn't have any any issues so far i've been living here for a year yeah
and so far so good so and you originally moved to canada from france right yeah yeah like
11 years ago i think yeah you're the only french person who's ever done that in one show right
right yeah the first one but i'm probably one of the first because back then it wasn't that
big of a thing 11 years ago yeah you started it we found it he started
we're in the construction now even where you go the weather is nice
and the construction has started we got soft summer vibes today summer vibes in my trail
yeah that's a nice house yeah so this is like the west end of ocholago right yeah yeah i'm not
i'm not an expert but i think the west part is more like ocelot and the east part is uh
and how's my pronunciation
yeah you can i know ochalaga oh schlager i mean you don't have to pronounce it and maison
yes by the end of the video i'll have it we just found a cool looking dip on there check
this out we got beer craft beer and we got korean ramen as well yeah this is the spot
so i don't know if i need a beer just yet but we're gonna go check it out it looks interesting
that's probably the jumbo pot right 15.
that's a lot of candy 2.5 kilos you know what do you think 15 bucks not bad so you just take a bed
with this guy and bring it to you and bring it bring it down i think right
this is an intense diploma i didn't know what i was getting into okay okay
what do you guys think i'm going for this i like these guys 136
those little blue sharks that's good pierre choose one man i'm in over my
honestly i just like that's my my favorite one yeah like it's like coke coke yeah it's 50 58
58 it is yeah youtube what should i choose come on guys help me out here
how many choices do we have three yeah three okay the eggs the eggs yeah the eggs look cool 121 it
they is this so much i had to eat some just to close this thing
it was like under four bucks not a pretty good deal
so pierre i got a quick question for you yeah what was your biggest surprise when you move
from france to montreal my biggest surprise it's kind of obvious but you know as a french speaking
person when you arrive here you you think that it's going to be the same it's going to be like
france but it's a totally different culture so you have to adapt it's not because you speak
the same language that you are like you have the same culture basically yeah i think that's what
like that's what most french people struggle with here yeah the difference is
yeah yeah because you know yeah just because we speak the same language we assume that we are
from the same place but we're not you know this place i recognize
i've actually only been to ocholaga like one or two times i've walked by here but i went to that
he doesn't want to be filmed did you guys see that he didn't he gave me one of those
anyway i've been to this place once or twice they got really good tacos yeah it kind of looks like
they're they better not be closed you want to check it out yeah yeah let's do it let's go but
is it closed like forever or no oh no no okay this is heartbreaking this place has the best tacos
i gotta make sure it's not out of business or something what's going on
que pasa i mean there's a sad face what does that mean
pierre bro what happened what happened i don't know man anyway guys last summer i had some really
good tacos at that spot so anyone who lives around here let me know what's going on and if it's
not closed if it's not closed for good fingers crossed you guys should uh check it out sometime
what's bobo
does it mean like no hipster yeah kind of yeah yeah this place is a nice bakery oh yeah yeah yeah
you got sandwiches and stuff yeah yeah you could get i couldn't hear you i could be down for that
is it bobo but is it bobo no it's not no it's not bobo we're safe we're safe
hey guys just a quick interruption i know there's been lots of people supporting my montreal videos
recently they've been getting a lot of views a lot of positive feedback a lot of good vibes makes me
really happy since i just moved here recently and i'm loving the community we're building
for some people who are new here you might not really know how youtube works um a lot
of channels will like have advertisements from companies like squarespace and
whatever whoever wants to advertise a youtube video i don't do that that much because
number one i'm not a big youtuber like that and number two because well
i just don't like selling things i don't think we need possessions to make our life better i
think it's about experiences and that's the message i try to share with people
which is a bit contradictory if i'm always selling like a products every second video so if you like
the videos i make if you enjoy this uh there's a couple different ways you could support you
can head on over to patreon for as little as one dollar a month you can join a community of people
like this who have decided to support this video project that i'm doing around montreal and around
the world and finally you could just subscribe click the bell button so you see more videos tell
a friend making these youtube videos is literally my dream job i'm trying to make this thing work so
thank you to everyone who's helping me make that possible back to the video
what's the name of this one lal on set part
all right guys so we are sitting here in a park
you know i got i just got a sandwich it's a chicken and cashew sandwich
and i also got a drink i'm afraid it might be a bit bobo i don't know if this is
i don't know if this is bobo or not chewy yeah it's like a kind of fancy uh lemon tonic drink
but you know why i got it because it's made in montreal so it's still a local drink boo boo look
so
so this place behind me this is olympic stadium
built i guess it was the 1970s early 70s when montreal hosted the olympics
definitely one of the prominent buildings in the skyline since montreal itself is not that tall of
a city other than downtown of course but you can see this thing from miles and miles and miles away
or kilometers i guess i should say but uh yeah definitely a huge tower
in fact fun fact about this it is one of the tallest slanted towers in the world
definitely the tallest in canada it's a little trivia fact for you
i'm gonna guess those are all the countries that played in the olympics that's nice those girls
with the skateboards just casually walking by the stadium looking so much cooler than i did
at that age actually so much cooler than i look today too but okay how do we uh okay okay parker
good use of space i really like that they put a
skate park here i feel like they're kind of expanding the neighborhood in a way that
it's cool for people who enjoy like doing sports you know like you have the park also like there
are a lot of people like biking running cool it's expanding in a nice direction
you know at the beginning of this video i was i was asking pierre you know do you feel safe
just leaving a bike here on the street because i think you know whether he admits it or not orchard
laga has a bit of a reputation of being you know could have been more dangerous than other areas it
could have had some negative activity crime and stuff like that but from what i've seen today i
mean we've had zero problems i would not hesitate to recommend someone to to visit here if they're
visiting montreal i think there's a lot to see and i think there's good vibes everywhere i mean
it helps that it's one of the first really nice days of the year but there's good vibes everywhere
speaking of good vibes here it is nomad block my buddy pierre is really into rock climbing
bouldering as it calls it that's the bouldering station nomad block
cool little spot guys i don't think i'm gonna go in there because from what i understand it's
actually like by reservation you can you can see how busy it is so if someone if someone
sees this video and wants to go what do they do they reserve it online or something yeah yeah you
go on their website yeah and you can buy either like a monkey pass or just a day pass that's cool
oh nice nice i could do that i just don't want to
nice one hope you guys have enjoyed this one it's been a lot of fun for me checking
out this neighborhood with pierre i made a video just last week asking if any montrealers wanted
to show me their neighborhoods i got incredible response i got a bunch of people reach out to me
pierre was one of the first so big shout out to pierre thank you man it was a lot of fun i hope
you like it and if people people want you're also a traveler you're also a photographer yeah yeah i
just traveled a lot before if people want to see what you're up to where should they go uh
my instagram i guess on instagram yeah right on man yeah yeah a lot of photos from my past trips
any final words to someone who wants to visit montreal any advice to someone
oh my god any thoughts on this city that you call home i don't know it's just like such an easy
going city you know just just come here and enjoy the vibe you know it's all about the vibe here
all right hope you enjoyed this one more videos from montreal coming soon
as always i'm dan from the new travel i'll see you next time peace
you gonna climb that europe