Canada 2023 part I - Montreal

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July 19th 2023

Published: December 8th 2023

Leonard Cohen rules (and nobody cares about Barbie) Our first stop in Canada was the city Montreal. Montreal is named after the mountain Mount Royal. We felt that we had to visit Mount Royal now that we were in the city. Both because we wanted to see the views from there and because the way we see things a visit to Montreal is not complete without visiting the mountain the city is named after. ... Read Full Entry

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Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Ake Och Emma

We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden. We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them. Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are Angel Falls in Ven... full info

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Bank of Montreal Museum

Bank of Montreal Museum at Place d'Armes

The French Poodle

The English Pug and the French Poodle, also known as The Two Snobs, are two bronze sculptures installed at Place d'Armes

The English Pug

The English Pug and the French Poodle, also known as The Two Snobs, are two bronze sculptures installed at Place d'Armes in Montreal

Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal

Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal at Place d'Armes

Cool building

Just a cool building at Place d'Armes

Crew Collective & Café

Crew Collective & Café is housed in a stunning environment. The building used to be a bank.

Street in Montreal

Cool building

Just a cool building in central Montreal

Colourful building

Colourful high-rise building in central Montreal

The Illuminated Crowd

This sculpture is called The Illuminated Crowd and was created by Raymond Mason

Eggspectation

Eggspectation is the name of a restaurant

Belfry?

Possibly a belfry, possibly a church, possibly something else. It looks interesting with the modern buildings behind it.

Art deco?

We think this is art deco. Please don't make fun of us if we are wrong

Street art

Something a bit funny at the end

The sign warns about tics. Large ticks... Like 1,5 cm large ticks...

8th December 2023

Sheri Schroeder
non-member comment

Another fun blog
I plan to visit Montreal in the future - perhaps in winter. Was good to hear about the underground city. Wondering what your favorite travel camera is these days? Happy holidays from Michigan!

11th December 2023

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Travel camera
I have a pretty good Canon camera that I am happy with. But my latest mobile phone actually takes equally good photos. So I tend to snap with both the phone and the Canon and pick the one that comes out best. /Ake

8th December 2023

Daniel Tingdahl
non-member comment

I guess the other famous Olympic gold was Anders Garderud in 3000 m steeplechase?
It was a little bit odd to read about Bernt Johansson as one of the two goldmedallists, I guess that Anders Garderud was trhe second? Excellent text otherwise - as usual!

11th December 2023

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Anders Gärderud was the other
Once I sat on a plane just three or four seats behine Anders Gärderud. I then had the chance to pull a small but fun prank on him but eventually didn't. I still regret that not going ahead with it. /Åke

9th December 2023

RENanDREW
Ren & Andrew

Leonard Cohen rules (and nobody cares about Barbie)
This heading made me laugh. And I agree, it's odd that the Barbie Museum didn't think to capitalise on the film's success

9th December 2023

RENanDREW
Ren & Andrew

All alone
I wonder if the rest of the church was destroyed in some way? It's striking to look at, but also very very odd.

15th December 2023

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Odd and interesting
It could be that the rest of the church has been destroyed somehow and that only the tower remains. That theory is at least as good as ours. /Ake

15th December 2023

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

Montreal
Montreal and Quebec City are so lovely. Memories of the Olympics are good. The architecture in the city is lovely.

17th December 2023

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

We hope you'll like the QC blog
We also went to Quebec City. The blog from there is in the pipeline. We hope you reat it and enjoy it once we have published it. /Ake

21st December 2023

alex waring
Alexander Waring

Montreal
A very interesting city, definitely on my list of places to visit along with the rest of Quebec. The architecture looks fascinating, definitely a place I could walk around I think.

21st December 2023

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Good place to walk
Montreal was a pretty good place to walk around in. It was too large to cover only on foot. But the public transport is excellent and when it is too far to walk you just take a trip and continue on foot again. /Ake

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