MONTREAL
A magical land filled with treats and treasures.
Montreal was amazing, i was so excited to get a slightly different city with a different language and i am so glad that i spent a week there. It was the first place i had been that felt busy with options and activities. Despite the dropping temperatures there were plenty of people to chat to and visits to organise.
I was so lucky to meet some excellent people and form a little touring group. Montreal has a huge Irish influence and we spent many a night in an Irish bar hunting down gigs and live bands. I love the architecture and culture of Montreal, it is the perfect blend of Europe and Canada, the food tour was a great chance to see both. Our newly formed group (the quad) headed out into the cold for food market treats, bagels with cream cheese and loxs and smoked meat sandwiches with sour cherry soda and pickles. It was DELICIOUS!
We followed up our day of feasting with a trip to the Contemporary Art Museum for their free evening. I didn't have great expectation to be honest but they had an amazing exhibition which i really enjoyed and in fact it deserves a solo blogpost. So more on that later.
Other Montreal highlights included our hostel cooking parties, climbing Mount Royal on an icy day and discovering a huge open fire at the top!, Sleemans Honey Beer, more live music, the botanical gardens & bio-dome and a christmas parade that ended in me overdosing on caffeine in many forms and franticly storming around the east of the city looking for food.
I loved the city so much and really had a great time, before long it was time to leave and board a bus (that i had to run for as i was distracted by a muffin) to visit my surrogate cousin Kelly in Vermont.
We followed up our day of feasting with a trip to the Contemporary Art Museum for their free evening. I didn't have great expectation to be honest but they had an amazing exhibition which i really enjoyed and in fact it deserves a solo blogpost. So more on that later.
Other Montreal highlights included our hostel cooking parties, climbing Mount Royal on an icy day and discovering a huge open fire at the top!, Sleemans Honey Beer, more live music, the botanical gardens & bio-dome and a christmas parade that ended in me overdosing on caffeine in many forms and franticly storming around the east of the city looking for food.
I loved the city so much and really had a great time, before long it was time to leave and board a bus (that i had to run for as i was distracted by a muffin) to visit my surrogate cousin Kelly in Vermont.
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