Sir Montcalm Montreal

So I haven't actually flown out yet, but I'm planning to.. In 9 hours. I just wanted to get my fans pumped up to read more about my adventures.

It's snowing a lot outside (in GFPK). I foresee a nice 1.5 hour bus ride from downtown Montreal to PET airport.

... pessoas como Hugo Chavez, Lula, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad e Muammar Kadafi. Este último rasgou a Carta da ONU, discursando para uma platéia muito apropriada, recheada de ditadores. Lula é amigão de vários deles. Esta semana recebeu o presidente do Irã, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, em solo brasileiro. Já chamou Kadafi de cumpanhêro, assim como Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales e, é sempre bom lembrar, Dilma Roussef, vulgo cumpanhêra Estela, que integrou a VAR ...

... people going elsewhere. Street artists were showing seasonal paintings - snow covered spiral staircases, snow on the streets, snow on the roofs. We truly felt a snow anticipation in the air

Uphill from a plaza was Quartier Latin where we had an evening coffee. Waiters kept asking us in French and we could not shake off a feeling of being in a magnificently unreal place

Several times we saw signs "Come back in May". I wonder...

... Paul who founded the community.

I found what he had to say quite fascinating and I saw something that blew my mind (that has to do with a book I just finished reading and a book that I just started reading that was given to me by Professor M in St. John's). My mother had mentioned something to me about the changes in the church and I wrote about some of it ...

... wanna go up and touch them just to make sure that they are not made out of plastic. over all though it has a cool vibe going on, its easily manageable to get around there are a several cycle routes that take you through the city and something like 33 km of subterranean walkways full of mall like shops to go down into when the cold wind just gets too much for you. By that evening we had done every route from the guide booked, checked out china/latina/the old Parisian quarter ...

... pour aller chercher du pain chez le dépanneur! J'ai failli échapper mon pain plus d'une fois sur le retour pour me rattraper à un poteau!!! Voila les nouvelles! On vous souhaite une bonne fin d'année 2008, et bien sur un excellent réveillon, on pensera bien a vous, avec quelques heures de décalage! On vous passera un petit coup de fil a minuit, hihihi... il sera 6h du mat pour vous, hihihi! Bises à tous!

Friday September 13th was a wet day, so everyone did their own thing, Kelly needed a new memory card for her camera and Sarah needed to pick up details for a her marathon, which she was competing in on Sunday. I aimed to head up Mont Royal, but the 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 ...

... the site of the Battle of Crysler's Farm. This was a battle during the British/French Conflict in 1812. This battle again saw a smaller British force defeat a larger American attack. We drove into Montreal and looked for a hotel. For once the roads into the Downtown area were well signed. We stopped at a couple of hotels but they were full for the night. Eventually we happened on a Quality Inn which had a room for a reasonable price. We lucked out as we found ...

Day 8 - Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day First real day of my vacation.. Took the subway to the Olympic park. Not too crowded.. went in the Biodôme (Old Velodrome during the 76 Olympics). 4 ecosystems of the Americas: Tropical Forest- very lush & humid with weird looking animals Laurentian Forest - birds flying over a 'lake' with beavers, lynx  porcupines. St. Lawrence ...

... it out of the house, I've gone out to pick up some essentials for my Australia trip, gone out for drinks with my friend Dutch (St. Laurent street festival was on last weekend), and of course, breakfast at Cosmos (mmmmm...potatoes with just enough cigarette ash). Unfortunately, I missed Grand Prix weekend in Montreal by one week, which is usually the best weekend of the year in the city. Just 2 more days until the big 25 hour flight to Sydney (plus the 14 hour ...