Plateau Royale Montreal

... onde planejou e participou de assaltos a bancos e hoje diz que defendia a democracia e é pré-candidata à sucessão de Lula. Ah! Ia esquecendo da admiração que O Filho do Brasil tem por Fidel Castro, o Coma Andante.
Essa conversa deve ter deixado os meus leitores com vontade de dormir. Por outro lado, eu continuo sem sono. São 6:05 em Montreal. Às 6:30 meu alarme vai tocar e eu vou fingir que acordei. C'est l'insomnie.

À bientôt.

... words of encouragement, we very much appreciated them.

A final word of wisdom, as we close off this blog: to all the innies out there, remember to Q-Tip your bellybuttons once in a while to stay fresh and clean. To those that are halfways and to the outies, consider yourselves lucky. And may Barry Manilow rock on forever!

Till our next trip...

There is a mighty river flowing from a great inland sea. Half way down the river is an isle with a mountain in the middle. Around the mountain is a city. First people called it Ville Marie. We called it Montreal in Middle French

In the center of the city is a plaza where Iroquois defended themselves against whites. Now the place is taken by a bank. Both sides lost.

Around the plaza were the cobblestone streets with the stores closed ...

Sexta-feira passada apresentaram na ILSC um filme da organização Invisible Children. Vocês sabiam que em Uganda existe a LRA (Lord's Resistance Army), liderada por um tal de Joseph Kony, cujo exército é composto basicamente de crianças raptadas em todo o país e obrigadas a matar e morrer? Se algum dia esse louco tinha uma causa, hoje não passa de um assassino, doente mental, que alega poderes sobrenaturais para alimentar o folclore sobre ...

... all in all, what a trip - exhausting, inspiring, exciting, amazing; the kind of experience that stays with you. All the more because we were with family and a great group of friends, and making new friends along the way....I hope you enjoyed as much as we did.

... day we went for a wander. We decided to head for the old part of Montreal. It was snowing here too but not as heavily. However, it was just as cold, -20 with wind chill. Positively tropical compared to -30 of Quebec! To get to the old part, we had to walk through a bit of the modern new part. Montreal is a City, like any other city. Sorry to be so uncolourful about it. There was traffic zooming about. There were sky scrapers. There was a subway. Starbucks ...

... and one with shops and restaurants. The capitol building itself offered a free tour of the governor's office, senate and house of representatives but, in contrast to Washington and New York, there wasn't a metal detector in sight. The whole place had a very relaxed feel and we were shown around by a little old lady rather than a burly policeman. After the tour, we had lunch in a diner on Main Street which also had a pleasantly 'small ...

... a nice part of the city. A lovely, lovely flat, in a nice area of the city, and we were greeted by a lovely French-Canadian bloke who made us tea and made us feel very welcome. Despite the language barrier, Gabriel is obviously a really nice guy - it's just a shame our vaguely passable French is French French, not Canadian French, otherwise I'm sure we'd have got on famously. Then Nathalie came home. Nathalie is a yoga teacher, shiatsu massage ...

... frogs like the yanks are pretend europeans, these ****ers are actual frogs! Berets, Garlic,hot women, the works. Not into it... move on!!! So we did. I've become an uncle for the second time. The beauty of Erin is revealed in this exclusive. Congrats to Lind and Alfie.xxx