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Montreal Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Montreal, Canada
Quebec City and the Wonder-bus
This is a top pick! Wow, I've really been slack with entries the last couple of days. I've been meaning to write this entry but it's been a) hard to charge find a free power outlet to charge my laptop and; b) exhausting at my hostel. I have to stay up late as the room is so ...
The Real Montreal
This is a top pick! ... some interesting coloured frogs, since she is quite fond of frogs. After our day at the biodome, we ventured to the Montreal Planetarium, yet another dome-building ‘extravaganza’, where moving images of the night sky are projected onto a ...
Canada!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Montreal
This is a top pick! ... Settled 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 ...
The city to chill on a Sunday.....and everyday!
This is a top pick! ... is what I saw. I made my way back to Chloes house at 5pm after spending 6 hours exploring Montreal. The city centre is electric and inspiring. I loved exploring the old city and river side, enjoyed ...
Happiest places in the world >> ASIA
This is a top pick! ... , 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 ...
Punk is not dead (in Montreal)...or cheese curds
This is a top pick! ... when people start talking back to me in French and I look at them blankly!! Yesterday consisted of mostly walking; though Montreal's Latin Quarter, Historic Old Town, Notre Dame, China Town and the Ports. the city was alive with multiple festivals.. ...
Back to the source
This is a top pick! Back to the source, to remember who I was when I left months ago. Refocus and spring back towards the South ...
Pardon, which way to Canada?
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Side trip to Montreal
This is a top pick! 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 ...
City of Comedy
This is a top pick! Grew up with Montreal being synonymous with comedy, my older brother and I watching Just For Laughs late night on ...
Montreal Madness
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Long drive back to Montreal
This is a top pick! Five hour drive back to Montreal to catch the train to New York ...
Lesson Learned...
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
DRINKING ON A MONTREAL DOOR-STEP
This is a top pick! ... . 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 ...
The requisite first entry
This is a top pick! 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 ...
J'AI HÂTE!
This is a top pick! 13 jours avant mon déménagement, 15 jours avant mon départ! J'ai ...
Au revoir Montreal
This is a top pick! ... 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, ...
Having spent a few weeks in the english ...
This is a top pick! ... when driving. After a long straight 5 hour drive along a motor way that just went on and on and on....... I arrived at Montreal. Now I was told that the people of Quebec are not very friendly when you speak English, so I was expecting a few language ...
Getting Started
This is a top pick! ... it is a little small. I am trying to figure out how to fit everything I need in there for two weeks. I traveled through Montreal with David this weekend while I was there, biking through the old grain elevators off the coast of the mighty St. Lawrence ...
Saying goodbye is the hardest part
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Around the World - Departure!
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Mon dieu! C'etait froid
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Home sweet home
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Montreal - Cirque Du Soleil.
This is a top pick! ... (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 ...
Éloges du Québec
This is a top pick! Ca fait maintenant 5 jours que je suis de retour. Je n'ai pas encore de chez moi (je cherche intensivement mon prochain appart) mais je suis content! J'ai fait un ultra-merveilleux voyage mais il n'y a rien de mieux que revenir chez soi. Malgré toutes ...
Montréal
This is a top pick! Nous sommes arrivés à Montréal! In fact, we arrived more than a week ago now. Je pense que Montréal est une ville unique et très amusement. I love the French influence, it's great practice for my upcoming stop in Paris! In Calgary, I had lined ...