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Day 1: LAX to Montreal flight was uneventful. Nash (landlord Luke's driver) took us to our apartment at Notre Dame and Montagne and after unpacking we walked a block to the MetroExtra market for necessities and then moseyed over to the Cafe Griffintown for happy hour and to watch art students oil up 20 little easels under the tutelage of friendly Freunks. | View west from 500 Rue De La Montagne apt. |
View north from 500 Rue De La Montagne sidewalk |
Griffintown Cafe prep for art night |
Day 2: we walked to #2 Ste. Catherine to pick up our
3-day Metro and Attractions passes with a stop at the
Basilique Notre Dame and Place d'Armes with a statue in
memory to Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve, founder
of Ville-Marie
on Ile Montreal, New France in 1642 |
Basilique Notre Dame is 150 years old |
The interior is primarily hand carved wood |
Cadillac plaque in McDonald's stairway |
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A statue in a nice public nook in old town |
Wedding party on Rue St Paul in Vieux-Montréal |
Hindu wedding party at New City Gas hall |
Day 3: we had our first Metro from Lucien L'allier to
Peel station and the underground city of Centre Eaton,
Ste. Catherine and Place Ville-Marie and visited a wax
museum and an observatory. It was a long walk
underground. We walked around the
underground mall serviced by 3 Metro stations and a
train station. This business and shopping network
might be better served with tunnel moving sidewalks.
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Jean-Drupeau observed from Place Ville-Marie and Ste. Catherine underground mall shop wall |
Montrealites have a vast
underground system of metro rails, tunnels, underground
malls and museums.
The dark splotches are all
underground to shelter from the bitter Canadian winters
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Day 3 (continued): then we Metro'd to Parc Jean-Drupeau. We returned to Lucien L'allier and walked down the tunnel towards the train station and found ourselves at the Belle Center. We bought good pita sandwiches at the Lebanese market on Peel St. |
6 Flags & Olympic tower from Jean-Drupeau |
Jean-Drupeau is a green park is on Île Sainte-Hélène east of Ile Montreal in the Ste. Lawrence River with a Geodome, Tour de Levis and an old river fort musee |
Devils defeat Canadiens in preseason action in spite of valiant "go, Habs, go" cheers and Molson beer |
Day 4: We had crepes on a back patio in
Griffintown with this view |
Our walk home after hockey game |
Place Jaques Cartier fur shop sells mostly mink |
Crêperie sign |
Day 4 (continued): We had lunch at Restaurant Les Filles
du Roy and rode a sight seeing boat on the river. |
We had fish & chip on the patio at Les Filles du Roy |
Pretty plant on the St. Lawrence waterway |
It clouded up but didn't rain |
Day 4 (continued): We Metro'd out to Olympic Park and
saw the Insectorium and the festival of lights in the
evening. I had just read Spider
Legs by Cliff Pickover and Piers Anthony featuring sea
spiders and the Insectorium had one (and lots of cool
stick insects)
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Botanical garden |
Chinese Garden of Lights |
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Day 5: we Metro'd out downtown to fine and contemporary
art museums |
One of 3 public pianos we encountered in Montreal |
Museum Toulouse-Lautrec lithograph |
Museum african masks collection |
The MAC had only one exhibit which was electronic
circuit music (here is a link to a 77 megabyte video) Day 5 (continued): we went to a Roch Voisine & orchestra concert |
Glass facade going in over Rue Jeanne-Mance brick |
Fountains on Rue Jeanne-Mance |
Roch Voisine and Symphonique Montreal |
Day 6: we walked Rue Notre Dame, saw shops and the
Atwater Marche and then Metro'd out to Mont Royal to walk
street art. We wore out and didn't get to Lester's
Deli in Mile End |
Atwater Marche berry stand |
Street musicians at Metro stop banana |
Wood shop in Mont Royal |
Day 7: visited local shops and art center and finished
with dinner at Europea's for our 21st anniversary 8: We shared beer and poutine at the Montreal airport, relaxed during our return flight and Execucar ride home where Don, Joy, Ginger, Zoey and Kobe welcomed us back to Huntington Beach |
Ludovik shop on Rue Notre Dame |
Roxana at the Montreal Art Centre |
Europea on Rue De La Montagne |
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