Olympic Stadium Montreal

Today I am in Montreal. Montreal is the second largest French speaking city in the world. It is a big and beautiful city, although many people think that it is boring compared to Quebec. There are lots of interesting shops and museums and there are four universities, two French speaking, and two English speaking.

We had a guided tour …

... by our pics,one particular squirrel was a lot braver than most and was literally getting in the bag! We had a quick look around the Olympic Stadium. This is worth a visit. It seems fairly pricey in Canada,so we are trying our best to keep to our ...

... couple days of sight seeing in which I scaled Mount Royal, walked through the old town and visited the very impressive Olympic Stadium I drove further east to Quebec City. Quebec City was basically where the main battles between the French and English ...

... (one of those indoor rain forest, artic environment things) which had lots of monkeys, penguins and other animals, and the Olympic stadium/tower, which looked like a waste of money :-) Also managed to go to an artificial island they made from excavating ...

... winter) so we got a taxi home. MONDAY 24 APRIL. MONTREAL. DAY 35 Ernest, Marie-Eve and I caught the subway to the Olympic Stadium, or 'The Big O' as it is known, where the 1976 games were held. Montreal is still paying for the stadium 24 ...

... -hop commuter flight from Philly to Montreal. That one was easy as pie. I nearly cried tears of joy when I saw the Olympic Stadium come into view as we approached for a landing just before sunset. There was an amazing rainbow visible over the ...

... hostel because it was raining pretty bad.  Nov 14th - This morning I caught the subway to Pie IX station which is where the Olympic Stadium is, as well as the tower which you can go up for some views of Montreal.  I then went to Place du ...

... weather was wet and misty so I gave it a miss. Saturday 14th September, mine and Kelly's final day in Montreal, therefore we headed for the Olympic stadium. We got up early and got our gear together, then Joe gave me, Dorothy and the kids a lift ...

... ! It was nice. And tomorrow is looking to be good too, so that’s a relief. Today the plan was to go to the Olympic stadium and tower, the Biodome, and the Botanical gardens as these are all in the one place- just get off the subway and you can walk ...

... weather was wet and misty so I gave it a miss. Saturday 14th September, mine and Kelly's final day in Montreal, therefore we headed for the Olympic stadium. We got up early and got our gear together, then Joe gave me, Dorothy and the kids a lift ...

... and lovely, especially in early fall. We walked all over the city, so much so that we actually walked to the Olympic Stadium, which is really far out of town. We climbed Mount Royal which overlooks the city, shopped, saw some great neighborhoods. We ...