by Montréal: highlights
We walked quite a lot around Old Montréal, the Latin Quarter, and some of the downtown. Thanks to Beth and J and their car tour we saw even more beyond. Here are only a few of our favourite photos of spots full of history in this lovely old city…
Previous posts about our trip to Montréal:
Back from Montréal
Montréal: roofs
Montréal: feasts
June 18, 2010 in Canada and BC, Travel by Marja-Leena
It’s so much fun to see the city through your eyes!
It looks SO French.
Lovely photos. You must have been there when it was sunny. Unlike me!
Beth, that’s always interesting when one has visitors, isn’t it? Thanks again for showing it all to us!
Hattie, yes! I kept thinking of Paris, even New Orleans sometimes.
Lilalia, we had some rainy days, some mixed and then sunny. I’m glad it wasn’t the heat wave that had been there earlier!
I’ve been in Montreal one day in 1971 on the last end on trans-Canadian trip with couple of friends on a Volvo Amazon, that had a new engine. It roared on Rocky Mountains.
I was disappointed with Montreal, because we didn’t manage to find French food!
Ripsa, that’s too bad, maybe one day was not enough in this city of so many different ethnic groups. The whole trip must have been quite exciting though.
Good ol’ Mahn-ray-all, the place where I learned that there are significant limits to my understanding of French. But did you take the DUKW tour and plunge down a ramp into the harbour? Can’t remember anything more about the place except for the hugeness of my hotel bedroom; we could have done a dress rehearsal of Carousel with space to spare.
BB, so Quebecois French stumped you? My high-school French was no help of course here, or in Paris last year, but we managed well with English. DUKW? Do you mean the ports area? We’d walked along the upscale ports side and our friends drove us around to the other side where we saw the former warehouses, sugar factory etc. that are being turned into nice condos. As a Canadian, I was interested in the old history of Montreal and the St. Lawrence as THE major port in Canada.