Montreal, Canada Travel Blogs

The Real Montreal
Jun 3, 2008

... 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 domed ...

Canada!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Apr 20, 2006 (25 photos)

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 ...

J'AI HÂTE!
May 26, 2007

13 jours avant mon déménagement, 15 jours avant mon départ! J'ai hâte!

Montreal Pin
Sep 22, 2007

Montreal Pin

Montreal
May 13, 2005 (8 photos)

... 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 ...

Happiest places in the world >> ASIA
Oct 29, 2008

... 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 ...

Lesson Learned...
Oct 1, 2007

... 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.

Éloges du Québec
Aug 21, 2007

... 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 l'affiche sur TravelPod très bientôt
Aug 21, 2007

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!!!

Pardon, which way to Canada?
Sep 19, 2008 (22 photos)

... 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 ...

Back to the source
Dec 17, 2007

Back to the source, to remember who I was when I left months ago.  Refocus and spring back towards the South Pole!

Side trip to Montreal
Oct 6, 2007 (2 photos)

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. ...

Retour au bercail
Aug 16, 2007

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 ...

Remerciements
Aug 21, 2007

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 ...

Return to Montreal for a few days
Dec 1, 2007 (11 photos)

Montreal

City of Comedy
Dec 29, 2003

Grew up with Montreal being synonymous with comedy, my older brother and I watching Just For Laughs late night on TV.

Back home for one last clean up
Jun 24, 2008

Back home for one last clean up

Montreal Madness
May 30, 2003 (5 photos)

... 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
Sep 24, 2008

Five hour drive back to Montreal to catch the train to New York City!!

DRINKING ON A MONTREAL DOOR-STEP
Jul 22, 2003

... . 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. ...

The requisite first entry
Feb 15, 2006 (1 photos)

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 ...

Au revoir Montreal
May 21, 2004 (3 photos)

... 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 ...

Having spent a few weeks in the english ...
Oct 31, 2002 (11 photos)

... 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 ...

Saying goodbye is the hardest part
Mar 5, 2006 (6 photos)

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 ...

Mon dieu! C'etait froid
Nov 21, 2005 (7 photos)

... 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
Jul 1, 2006 (3 photos)

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 ...

Montreal
May 31, 2005 (3 photos)

... (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 ...

Around the World - Departure!
Jul 8, 2007

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 ...

Montréal
May 18, 2004 (9 photos)

... 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- ...

Montreal.....
Feb 2, 2006 (5 photos)

... 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 ...