Montreal, Canada Travel Blogs

Hello all...well we arrived safe and tired into Canada,after an 8 hour bus journey from Boston to Montreal. Amazing,considering its just a few inches on the map! Believe us,its one big country! The border crossing to Canada was fun! Was like the Spanish ...

A travel blog entry by loudan1979
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13 jours avant mon déménagement, 15 jours avant mon départ! J'ai hâte!

A travel blog entry by jelg
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... Instead, the views are of carved temples and vivid prayer flags fluttering against a backdrop of snow-dusted mountains. #2. MONTRÉAL, CANADA If laughter is indeed the best medicine they should need fewer medics in Montréal. The Francophone capital of ...

A travel blog entry by happysheep
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... and unpacked it was off to explore the sights. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Montreal is a funny place, you are in the heart of Canada but everone speaks French. It was certainly a bit of a ...

A travel blog entry by suzukistorey
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... sure everyone knew that and I'm the only one stupid enough to do such a thing. I've never been happy to have a layover but I desperately needed to get off the plane to regroup. Here in Montreal, I'm breathing again and waiting for my flight to London.

A travel blog entry by yah27
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... pizza à 1$, nos tourtières, la Molson Ex! J'aime le parc Lafontaine avec ses écureuils gros comme des chats, le night life de Montréal, le plateau Mont-Royal, le festival Juste Pour Rire, le festival Western de St-Tite! J'aime le Québec parce que y'a rien de ...

A travel blog entry by jelg
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Très bientôt sur TravelPod et dans un cinéma près de chez vous: "J.E. fête l'halloween", " J.E. à Baie-Comeau " et " le Noël de J.E." PS: C'est d'l'humour Gwennnnnnnn!!!

A travel blog entry by jelg
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... was modelled after St Peter's Bastilica in Rome, but much smaller and of course the hugely impressive Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal. This Basilica is a masterpiece of Gothic Revival architecture and was completed in 1829. This church, to me, has been the ...

A travel blog entry by vine_hooligans
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Comme les prochains vols vers Montréal étaient seulement dans 2-3 jours, j'avais décidé d'essayer d'être "standby" pour les vols du 16 août. Il ne faisait pas beau et je ne voulais pas rester les bras croisés à ...

A travel blog entry by jelg
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Je me répète peut-être mais j'ai fait ce blog avant tout pour moi. Pour immortaliser mes souvenirs et pensées. Je l'ai aussi fait pour donner des nouvelles à mes amis et famille. Si en plus j'en ai fait rire ou divertit quelques-uns alors je suis content! Je ...

A travel blog entry by jelg
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Back to the source, to remember who I was when I left months ago. Refocus and spring back towards the South Pole!

A travel blog entry by erriuc
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I have a High School friend who lives in Montreal. Nick wanted me to stick around for an extra week in Kingston so that we could spend Thanksgiving together. So I went to visit Monique for a few days. She started her own business, EnergieNow (www. ...

A travel blog entry by cobra1899
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Montreal

A travel blog entry by erriuc
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Back home for one last clean up

A travel blog entry by erriuc
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... After scaling to the top, passing out and receiving CPR, I get to see a really pretty city from a great vantage point. Montreal is really stunning, I say that because it is the best of both worlds, a modern Western society with a touch France thrown ...

A travel blog entry by jrcormack
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... . I was concerned, however, that the $210 I'd begun the trip with was now depleted to only $40. So, I went around Montreal looking for weekend work. "Nobody's gonna give you a job with a moustache!" Nichola had blurted at me one night in Quebec. ...

A travel blog entry by modernoddyseus
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I'm nowhere, yet. Still at home, sitting at my desk, daydreaming about travel and trying to plan the zillion details that need to be taken care of before I can depart. At the moment I'm too lost in the details to be too excited, or apprehensive, or ...

A travel blog entry by segacs
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... world! We went and saw Powderfinger at the Cabaret on Tuesday night, (along with the entire Australian population of Montreal, perhaps) it was fantastic. Only 400 people in a tiny oldschool theatre, very intimate. Ian left for home yesterday, which ...

A travel blog entry by cobi
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... Quebec which meant that signs could only be in French and if they weren't you were fined. However this was a long time ago. Montreal (which derives its name from Mount Royal - the hill overlooking the city) has a very European feel to it. From fashion ...

A travel blog entry by mrjoey
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Three days till departure. The tough part right now is saying goodbye to all my family and friends. If you're reading this, then chances are you're on the list of people I'm really going to miss an awful lot. Last Monday was everyone at work, on my ...

A travel blog entry by segacs
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... (we changed part way through our visit) was somewhat out of the city centre which required a lot of healthy walking. Montreal has a mountain "Mont Royale" which gives a wonderful view of the city and has many wonderful walking paths and roadways. We set ...

A travel blog entry by heatheravan
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... out of Ontario Myself and Meg left Kingston and on my first trip to the province of Quebec we went to visit Montreal. With a reputation as a happening, hip amalgam of culture, style and diversity Montreal is the largest city in Quebec, a province where ...

A travel blog entry by byrnedm
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Home at last, and it is indeed sweet. I've only made it 99% home, technically. I'm in Dollard, crashing at my folks' for the night while I use their amenities including the washer/dryer. So I haven't made it to my own place yet and I won't get to sleep ...

A travel blog entry by segacs
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... beautiful old Montréal, spent a sunny afternoon exlporing Mont Royal (designed by the same guy who created Central Park), gone out to Montréal Island and the like. I would say I've eaten a Nutella and banana crepe almost every day, my staple in the French- ...

A travel blog entry by cobi
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How do you leave your world behind in the pursuit of another one? This is the question I asked myself while looking at the landscape slowly changing as I was going from NYC to Arizona, on my 2 days bus tour across the USA. I have been working so hard ...

A travel blog entry by erriuc
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... or 4 nights, its really beautiful, the architecture is stunning, as we are now in the Province of Quebec, we are in French Canada, Montreal to me is a mix of Paris, Boston and London...its VERY French, everything is written in French, and everyone speaks ...

A travel blog entry by alinmattrtw2005
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... Ottawa since they are not allowed to fly out of Ottawa. Upon check in, they gave us our boarding passes for the Montreal-Amsterdam portion as well as the Amsterdam-Accra portion of the trip. They ticketed our bags to go straight through to Accra, which ...

A travel blog entry by hooktravellers
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... a lot of fun catching up with everyone. Moreover, I'm still seeing the world through my rose-coloured tourist lenses, and Montreal in the summertime sure looks sweet when viewed in that way. Canada Day, the Jazz Fest, FantasiaFest, the Comedy Fest... it ...

A travel blog entry by segacs
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... so lucky to be on the receiving end. We spent our chilly days (the wind factor made it feel like -45!!) exploring Old Montreal and discovering it's interesting history, then on our final day Jo and Nic kindly drove us around some of Montreal's other ...

A travel blog entry by kevandsian
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... again! Although we booked our flights in October using our Aeroplan points, it was the only connections we could manage. We arrived in Montreal at 1:30 am and slept fitfully in some oversize chairs in the airport lobby until our check in at 4:30 am.

A travel blog entry by kimandmartin
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