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Montreal A city of Charm
... of cultures and architecture styles, many from France, from England, even some Bavarian like touches. Gothic, modern, quaint, floral.
Marcelo and I hired some 'Bixi' bikes and cycled around a lot of the city (which is one of the best ways to get around it). The first day we decided to walk to our host, Catherine's house, it took us about 3 hours, through some ugly neighborhoods on the edge of town (bad choice).
For the most part, however, ...
Quebec before Spring arrives
... we want to continue toward the old city, we jump on a 55 bus, which takes us a few blocks to turn at Rue Notre Dame, where we get off and deploy the umbrellas, such as they are. We get an exterior photo of the church and continue on into Vieux-Montreal, reaching the river at the Vieux Port. One of the quays has been re-developed as the Science Centre. We venture in, as much to get warm and dry as to improve our minds. There is a fair bit going on, ...
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Typically French City
... wares which was kind of different. We then wandered back along another quieter street and down into the underground city. To be honest we didn't think much of it really, it was very clinical looking and looked more like an art gallery without the paintings hanging on the wall. Back on the surface we headed back to the van via McD's for an ice cream and then walked to Burger King to buy dinner with a money off voucher that we got in one of the ...
French Canada: Frencher than France!
... able to eat a large one to himself… so he ordered it.
Halfway through he started to feel very sick. But he refused to admit defeat and eventually, after quite some time, finished it. I think the difficult bit was keeping the pizza in his stomach afterwards. What a champ! That’ll show her!
The next day the owner of the hostel gave us some tips on what we should see during our stay, which was very helpful. We headed to Mount Royal ...
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