Geo: 45.5075, -73.5587 We got up on Tuesday morning headed toward McGill University to the McCord museum. It was a natural history museum of Canada. We next went to the Marguerte Bourgeoys museum. It is a church founded in the late 1600's by the above woman. We took a tour of the Archeological site below the church. It had some of the original foundations from the original church. After lunch, we walked along the St. Laurence River and decided to take a river cruise aboard the Le Bateau-Mouche. It was a nice relaxing trip after a long day. We got up this morning and headed out to the Olympic Park. We looked around and headed for the Biodome. We saw many live animals there. Next we headed for the Botanical gardens. Very nice. Some of the ... read more

Geo: 45.5075, -73.5587 Well, our flight went well. I was a little worried because we booked an Air Canada flight and the first leg was actually on a United plane. Then the connection was on a Jazz flight, which is a subsidary of Air Canada. I had visions of our bags going everywhere but Montreal. All was fine and our bags met us in Montreal. We went out and had some dinner, came back and unpacked. The next morning we got on the Metro and headed downtown to look around. We found McGill University and looked around. Its a very nice college. We found the bookstore and purchased numerous items with McGill on them. We walked around and found a nice church to visit. It was built in the 18th century. After that we took the ... read more

Geo: 38.6252, -121.328Lets see, our last blog had us in Geneva. We got Tuesday morning and took the train to downtown. We walked around in the park by the lake for a while. We found a museum to attend, but when we got there, it was closed. We decided to go back to St. Peter's Cathedral to see the archeological display under the church. WOW, they have dug up under the entire church. There are walls from Roman times and about 4 church foundations from about 2000 years ago. It was really great. On Wednesday, we went back into town and headed for Carouge, which is a suburb of Geneva. It was supposed to be an older section with lots of shops. It turned out to be a bust. We walked there and then took the ... read more

Geo: 46.5196, 6.63212We got up on Thursday and it was a pretty clear day. We decided to take the cog wheel train up to Rochers-De-Naye, which is at almost 7,000 feet, for a view of Montreaux and the surrounding mountains. By the time we got to the top, we were higher than the clouds. We walked around for a while in about 3 inches of snow. It must have snowed in the last couple of nights. We saw some great views between clouds blocking our view. After we got back to lake level, we got on a boat and did a 2 hour tour of Lake Geneva. This only covered about 10% of the lake. This is the largest lake in Europe. We walked back to our hotel and took a short nap, then out to ... read more

Geo: 46.9588, 7.52331On Monday, we took the train back into Bern to do a walking tour of the old town. It was a very cool day. Actually it was cool, about 45 degrees when we left Stettlen. There was a 20% chance of rain, so we took our umbrellas with us. Luckily we didn't need them as it didn't rain at all. It did get warmer too, maybe up to 65 degrees. Why did I bring 3 pair of shorts with me? There are about a dozen really old fountains around old town. We took some pics, but because it was so dark because it was cloudy and we were between tall buildings, they didn't come out too good. We saw the old clock that was built in 1530 and still works. We went to the ... read more