A Montreal Weekend
I’m going to be at this. With lots of rope. Tying pretty much whoever I can get my hands on.
I was in Montreal a couple weekends ago, working an event for my day job. My responsibilities ended on Friday night, so Saturday before my train left I went for a wander in Montreal. My first goal was to find the Fetiche Store on Ste-Catherines E and buy some more rope. I had green in mind, and I knew that they sold rope from Gargoyle Toes there. I’d bought his rope before, while in Montreal, and have been very happy with it. Of course, when I got to the location – closed. Shut down. Big For Rent sign in the window. Crap. This is what happens when you don’t do the research! So then I got back on the metro, headed out into Westmount to visit my very pregnant and dear friend Steph at her and her partner David’s new bike shop. While standing outside of the shop by the canal, I managed (?!?!) to pick up a wireless signal from somewhere and found out the shop had moved to a new location on Ontario street – essentially just up the road from where I just was.
Coffee with Steph finished and I got back on the metro (this was a mission, now) and in what seemed like no time found myself at the shop. Time was getting a bit tight to make my train, but I can’t be in a fetish store without doing a bit of browsing. So. I browsed. As I was, a lovely woman in a gorgeous corset walked up to me and started speaking to me in clear but rapid french. Most of which I actually caught. I thanked her – in English – and told I her I wanted the rope for sure but was going to look around for a bit. She switched to my language (thankfully, I wasn’t quite in the mood to murder French at the moment) and said when I was ready just let her know.
I brought the rope up to the cash (it was really all I was looking for in the moment) and about a half hour later walked out with some new dark green 6mm hemp. The half hour was filled with some good solid geek conversation, on multiple levels and always a delight, and ended with me getting an invitation to come to the event and basically deliver up some ropey eye candy in exchange for a free pass. I told her I was more than interested, caught my train, came back to Toronto & booked the time off of work. Done.
So now I’m looking at my rope tree and figuring out what bag am I going to use to bring all of this with me? Do I have enough? Should I, in fact, buy more? (That’s a dangerous question right there…)
I am very much looking forward to this event. Not only ‘cos I get to be tying new people all weekend, but also as some of my favourite people will be there. Andrea Zanin of Sex Geek is teaching two workshops; one called “Hands On Play”on Thursday and another called “Pleasures of Female Fisting” on Saturday. Also on Saturday, Midori is holding a workshop called “Scene Dynamics and Psychology of Rope Bondage” which I’m hoping to get to. The line-up of workshops is pretty fantastic – you can check it out here, in English.
Should be a fun weekend. I’ll be posting from Montreal, as much as I can.
