Right so I have been in Montreal and am now on a train to Ottawa. The first couple of days it snowed fairly incessantly which is less fun than we seem to think it would be back home, it is just rain but colder. This may have been because I was wandering around the city and couldn't really enjoy it so much.
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| Maire-Reine-Du-Monde |
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| Notre Dame |
It is quite a different a different place to Halifax, the people are decidely more French and I don't necessarily mean that in a good way. It also seemed the sun had decided to shun the place while I was there which was a shame, couldn't see the tops of the buildings half the time. There were quite a few pretty building though, some slightly older and more European stuff. I went and had a look at a couple of cathedrals, Notre Dame and Marie-Reine-Du-Monde, went into Marie as it was free which I considered a big plus.
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| SQUIRREL!!! |
There were some pretty sights though, found this wall covered in icicles that was awesome kind of like stalactites. Also climbed up Mont Royal which was a bit of a challenge it was fairly deep snow which made it more difficult. Saw a few cross country skiers, unfortunately the views of the city were rather obscured by a collection of grey clouds. The place seemed to be littered with statues as well, one of which was a Mountie so that was stereotypical.
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| A view of Montreal from Mont Royal |
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| Icicles on a wall |
Met some cool other travelers, a guy from England a few Canadians, a Nigerian (who I couldn't understand), a Czech (who I could just understand) and an Aussie who was in the country for one day and got ridiculously drunk. So that meant the evening were fun and fairly long. Also trains seem to like using their horns out here
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