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Montreal - Canadian- European
... people asked me on the street in French for the way. Luckily I got a map on me. It is hard to speak it again but I can understand a bit, well one word out of 10 :)
Of course you need to eat a crepe and the best ones are in Chez Susanne in Old Montreal near Notre Dame. There is also Poutine, french fries with gravy and cheese which I still need to try.
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Montreal & Mont Tremblant
Day 12
Today we are up early to make the drive to Montreal...but not too early as we were concerned about getting stuck in peak hour traffic....either in Ottawa or Montreal. We stop at a petrol station and fill up for the drive and also go into a Tim Horton's (like a Gloria Jeans or Starbucks) get some breakfast and hit the road.
After 2 hours we arrive in Montreal and decide to do our own walking tour of 'Old Montreal’. We go into the ...
Juliette & Chocolate - mmm
... and we had to wait a little bit for a table. Their speciality was obviously chocolate and sweets, but they also did savory meals. Trish and I both had the ham, cheese and spinach buckwheat crepe, and "the sundae" for dessert. It had banana, strawberries, icecream, cream and broken up cookie in it, yum! What a small world when you can meet up with people through connections in Australia in Montreal! A nice night! After dinner we headed back to the apartment on the ...
La Canada: All for One, and One for (Montre)al!
... fish and chip' meal, even if they tend to eschew cod for (equally indistinct) halibut. Nonetheless, they still feel the need to offer their clientele tomato ketchup with their battered-fish plates. Canada, you stand judged.
After a long day's journey on Thursday, I arrived in Ottawa, the beating political heart of Canada. If indeed such a heart did beat; people here seem a little perplexed by the current political situation in Canada. But more on that later...Anyway, ...
I don´t speak French
... as their culture is French and not English and so why should they cater for English speaking people in that part of Canada.
Montreal has some great buildings, including the basilica and some interesting architecture in old Montreal. Even though there are some great spots in Montreal it wouldn´t really be considered a tourist destination and it isn´t a place that we would say that people must visit. Montreal is however famous for its jazz and we also arrived ...