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Montreal

Montreal is in Quebec, which is the French part of Canada. I thought there would see all street signs and things like French and English but not everything is in French only, and most people I spoke first in French, and until you talk to them in English and will answer the same. It is now Montreal is the second largest French speaking city in the world's largest, obviously after Paris. Now I understand as there are Canadians who do not learn English ever: if you live in Quebec do not need it all. Funny thing is that there are people there that comes to Toronto to study English.

Well, back to the trip, we came to Montreal as at 6:30 or so, stopped for lunch and then we went to the hotel. For the price we pay for the trip, we thought we were going to take to find hotels grinder, but we actually did quite well: we stayed at a Holiday Inn practically in the center of the city. We some time in the hotel as we changed and then the 10 we met with our compatriots and went for a walk.

That week was a jazz festival in Montreal, from which only managed to see a bit because it ends too late, but we see that it was good, hehe. Closed several streets and had a lot of people. My impression is that the city is not as multicultural as Toronto, there are so many immigrants, and most people have European features. This is not to be malinchista, but as he said a friend of Ydania: people here are nicer than in Toronto. We went walking

St. Catherine Street, a major and where there are several clubs. A girl with who was with us had been before in Montreal and knew some places. We went first to one but as we did not like, was one of those that must wait in line for a while to get the input and Dewey and depending on how you see it if you let in or not (and us as we would not very elegant say), cover charged separately. We walked a little further and came to a place that was better, too bad you can not remember the name. It was like a multi-story bar, and the highest had a small dance floor. Spent some time there and then we moved to the back of the first floor, where they had a few tables. Poutini we ate there, which is typical of Montreal, which basically French fries are two types of cheese.

The raised was good because we had to be on the bus at 6:45. The problem was that we arrived at the hotel between 4:30 and 5 and we got up at 6. The hotel we took a walk to Chinatown, I do not know if we only saw a block or so is all there is to do, but it seemed much smaller than Toronto.

From there we went to the cathedral of Notre Dame, which from the outside is not very special but inside is spectacular. It has several paintings and a few things of gold. We are told it is the most exclusive of Montreal to marry, and the ceremony goes in a few thousand dollars. Unfortunately not stop taking pictures inside, try to take a flash but did not go well, and with flash could not focus because he had to run away when he approached a man to scold us, hehe. From the cathedral we went to the Church of Sait Joseph (or something) that is on the mountain that gives its name to the city (Montreal = Monte Real = Mont Royal). That is not because we charged $ 3 and goes against my religious beliefs to give money to a church. We were in the cafeteria watching the scene until we returned to the bus.
The next stop was the Montreal Tower, which made for the Olympic Games (from '76 I think) and is on the side of the stadium and the Biodome, a zoo representing 4 different environments and at the foot of the tower. Unfortunately we were very tired and sleepy to go to attractions, so we were resting on the grass next to the Biodome, during the hour and a half we were there. At 11 we returned to the bus and go to Montreal to Quebec City.

The view from our room at the hotel.


St. Catherine in the street during the Jazz Festival.


Outside the cathedral of Notre Dame.


The Church of St. Joseph.


Montreal Tower.


Biodome.

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