http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , Canada , Quebec , Montreal en-us Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:54:29 BST Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:54:29 BST Thursday July 17 2008 Sunday July 20 2008ltltUnfortunately we didnrsquot take a lot of photos while in Montreal. Seemed the camera always got left behind in the hotel room.gtgtSo Tegan and I headed up to Canada to attend Brian and Ghislainersquos wedding in Montreal. We spent 3 nights in Montreal and 2 nights in Quebec City. What follows is a brief description about our time in http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/blog-303864.html So we arrived in Montreal at 1030 on Monday. We were going to attempt to catch the train to the hostel but with my massive suitcase shoulder bag laptop bag handbag and Vanessarsquos TWO massive suitcases we didnrsquot like our chances. We thought a taxi might be the best way to go. Only the taxis didnrsquot want to take us either so we had to get a taxi each. My taxi driver was alri http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/blog-302716.html Ah Montreal.The city that I call home when I travel.We're back in Montreal for the summer and we're loving itWhile Dave and I were running a chase point or checkpoint for the Montreal City Chase we were distracted by a man wearing a clown wig riding on a kid's scooter chased by a blue bus full of drunk guys two of which were hanging out of the overhead emergency exit throwing water balloo http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/blog-300106.html Beste iedereenAls eerst wil Ik met het volgende beginnen.....Dr. Ink en Aar de man van willen iedereen bedanken voor het bijdragen aan de superdag tijdens het verdedigen van haar proefschrift en haar benoeming totDokter in de Biologie.What's up Doc Het was een dag waar wij lang naar toegeleefd hebben en een dag om nooit te vergeten Enige minpuntje die dag is dat Inke vanaf nu als Ineke doo http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/Old-Montreal/blog-296813.html Itrsquos hard to believe how fast time goes living and working on such a lsquosmallrsquo boat Since my last blog wersquove sailed into Canada and spent a week in Montreal climbed a few hundred feet in elevation to the fresh waters of Lake Ontario via the St. Lawerence Seaway Lock system glanced at Quebec Cityrsquos mighty castle pulled along side Pier 4 in downtown Toronto and vis http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/Old-Montreal/blog-296032.html June 18 MontralWe got in Montral around 6h00 PM and went directly to the world famous Schwartzrsquos restaurant which they are known for their famous Montreal smoked meat. Nigel was in heaven. It is definitely worth it to stop here even though there are often line ups to get in. Afterwards we headed towards Dominicrsquos place one of Nigelrsquos friends. We were a little bit early s http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/blog-294450.html Ok we have been in Canada for a while now and I have been slack in not updating...QUEBEC CITYSo we did the big drive up from Boston to Quebec city on Wednesday... Except we made it bigger by getting lost getting out of Boston We drove up via Maine which was absolutely gorgeous The road followed the river for the most part which was really lovely and made a long drive better. Just out of portsmou http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/blog-293207.html 19 juinEt voil Crsquoest ici que ce termine notre aventure. Ce rve tant dsir depuis plusieurs annes qui prend fin. Nos trois ingrdients ont t ncessaires pour russir ce rve esprer croire et oser. Et crsquoest avec fiert que nous le crierons haut et fort dans notre coeligur. Mon amour nous lrsquoavons fait Ce voyage nous aura appris que la vie est tellement belle et qurs http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/blog-289287.html 26 May Itrsquos Steversquos first time in Montreal in the summer so hersquos very excited. The weather changes quite a bit from being cloudy but warm to hot and sunny with high humidity some daysHighlights Driving to Tillsonburg Ontario to meet the cousins and uncle. Museums and lunches with Valeriersquos Dad and Jacqueline Karaoke at the Dollar cinema with Rebecca Isabel MJ and W http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/blog-289155.html Sateisesta Vancouverista tie vei sateiseen Edmontoniin. Siell ei oikeastaan ollut mitn kiinnostavaa. Kvin maailman suurimmassa ostoskeskuksessa West Edmonton Mallissa ja se oli kammottava paikka se. Muuten lhinn ajelin eestaas metrolla kun keli oli mit oli. Viel sateisempi oli Calgary joka kaupunkina vaikutti nist Albertan suurkaupungeista paljon mielenkiintoisemmalta. Nyt valitettav http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/blog-288043.html So here is the promised blog on Montreal just to show that I did some stuff other than watch the F1In total I had 4 full days in Canada and bearing in mind that I was occupied with the cars from 95 most days.... it didn't leave me much time to see the city. Now Montreal is a place I've always wanted to visit. Ever since I was introduced to the world of motor racing and the Villeneuve family http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/blog-286343.html Yup that's right... my first blog if this trip is about the Grand Prix. Did anyone really expect anything else I mean I've planned this trip to coincide with the race...So anyways for anyone wanting to read about how much I love Montreal... well they'll have to wait until the next instalment.I've spent the last 3 days sitting on the most uncomfortable sheet of metal surrounded by beerswiggin http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/blog-285231.html Hello AllWe have not been doing well keeping up with our blog the last couple of weeks as we were busy preparing for convocation and then tired and recovering from convocation. Dana flew to Toronto and met up with her family while I flew to Ottawa to meet with mine. My parents grandparents and bro all bro all made the cross country trip and the Thompson's Mel's parents were very nice to http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/blog-284774.html Zo na zo'n slorige vier weken zonder wat van ons te laten horen voel ik me zo schuldig dat ik maar weer eens een blogje schrijf. Uit het oog uit.... nou ja je weet wat ik wil zeggen.Ja waar was ik ook al weer gebleven drie weken geleden hadden we voor twee weken een gast op bezoek Charlote een collega van Ink. Ze was hier voor werk ja die biologen die hebben het enorm zwaar die we vervolgens http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/blog-282546.html Two days ago Shortstop left Montreal.Even though the things that come out of her mouth are fucking retarded most of the time shersquos an amazing friend. My best female friend up here in Montreal more by virtue of the fact that 99 of McGill girls are dumb skanky white Toronto girls wersquore pretty tight. And Irsquove gotten used to her brand of humormdashsaying retarded things is http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/blog-280889.html Rather unsurprisingly we woke up at 5am or something the next day which meant I got full use of the jacuzzi in the bathroom I'm not sure the neighbours would agree because the noise the thing made probably woke up half the hotel but I was jet lagged and not really caring We spent the morning wandering down by the harbour where a lot of redevelopment has gone on but still manages to blend well wi http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/blog-279716.html As expected I didn't get near a computer very much over the last few weeks but now I'm in Abbotsford and it's first thing in the morning I may as well start backdating this blog The flight out on the 9th was great and with the possible exeption of Grant becoming an aide to the many Indian people on the flight it was fine he helped one guy next to him with his immigration card and before I knew http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/blog-279697.html Steffi Halli HalloHier sind wir nun gelandet in der NationalBibliothek von Montreal nachdem wir etwa 30 Minuten lang in der Stadt herumgekurvt sind da Nikis TouristenFuehrer eine falsche Karte drin hat supa Der Typ am Kiosk hat laut gelacht als er sie gesehen hat und hat sie allen herumgezeigt schaemDie Strassen waren richtig nur die 2 Bibliotheken die wir gesucht haben waren an einem http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/Old-Montreal/blog-278700.html I woke up around 11am groggy from 5 hours of sleep.Things flooded back to me. DicehellipMexican girlshellip60hellipbikeshelliproulettehellipblack 6hellip.Shit.I slammed my head back into my pillow.This is worse than a hangover.Combined DGerman and I had zero dollars. Zero. I guess technically I had 2.45 residing in my bank account and DGerman had some other trivial single dig http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/blog-278521.html hello again it is chucking it down with rain so I thought I would take the opportunity to do a little blogi got up early yesterday and walked up to the top of MontRoyal it isnt acutally a mountain but people from montreal like to think it is apparently So i scaled the hill and got some really cool views there is a chalet at the top where you can sit and look out across the whole of montrea http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/blog-278041.html This week has been a blur.Last Friday me and DGerman hosted a party at our apartment where we gave hamburgers to everyone and they brought beer we got a little drunk with a select group of people met our ginger haired Minnesota neighbor with a black grandfather then when we were cleaning up the mess we decided to do we were up until 7am collapsed asleep then that same evening made http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/blog-277656.html Hello all I hope you are impressed with the speed between my last blog and this one I got to Montreal after a rather long train journey it should have only been 10 hours but some tourists hadn039t booked return tickets from Canada and didn039t have insurance or something so we were delayed for a couple of hours. Luckily I had some books to read so it wasn039t too bad.The weather toda http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/Old-Montreal/blog-277337.html We set a time and place over the next few emails Milton Gates 130pm right after my class.Because I was all nervous and jittery I shot out of bed as soon as my alarm beeped at 10am instead of hitting snooze ten times and racing off to math class at 1100.Faced with so much time I took a shower ate breakfast and spent two minutes choosing my clothes instead of the usual 2 seconds.I glanced http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/blog-276763.html Itrsquos SUMMEREveryonersquos favorite season the weather is awesome no school everyonersquos relaxed and guys have an excuse to rock sunglasses to safely check out girls flaunting their bodies.This summer is a little different from my previous two. I wonrsquot be going apeshit in Tokyo for 3 months. I wonrsquot be tearing shit up with Teddy. I wonrsquot be involved in a mna http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/blog-274611.html Tim Today has been a good day. We took a metro down to the Biodome and went over to the Giles Villneave circuit the home of Canadian Formula 1. Later in the day we have bonded a little bit more with the people in the hostel and we are outside with them playing a French drinking game called DIXIT. Now whilst writing this blog I should account for any gramatical or spelling errors by pointing out http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/South-Shore/blog-274329.html Tom Overlooking Montreal there is a large 3 peaked hill called Mount Royal which the clever people in wikiland inform us gave the city it's name. So having been promised a postcard view we headed for the hills. Much sweat and even more grunts later we'd climbed to 2 of the 3 summits and the views were amazing with panoramic views across Montreal and the surrounding countryside. After a pau http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/Saint-Laurent/blog-274005.html Nous voici dans les derniers prparatifs. a fait une semaine qu'on prpare toute sorte de trucs mais j'aimerais bien avoir une journe ou deux de plus. Le grand dpart c'est ce soir Nous partons 23h00 ce soir avec Zoom Airlines arrive Londres 10h30 jeudi matin heure locale avec un dcalage horaire de 6 heures. Aujourd'hui il y a les bagages faire quelques petites affaires achete http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/blog-273828.html