I LOVE MAPLE SYRUP!!!!
Our time here in Quebec has been extra special, because this is the home of maple syrup. It doesn't get any better than being able to eat fresh maple syrup ice cream, maple syrup muffins, maple syrup on a spoon, waffles anything you can imagine. Even maple syrup taffee, where it is frozen in the snow, rolled and you eat it off a stick, total sweetness rush but yum yum yum......
Montreal is known as the best club and party scene in Canada. Of course we had to check it out!
Vic and I spent the mid morning wandering the Parc du Mont Royal where the weather gave us hail stones then snow and then finally rain. So amazing walking through the scary spindly forest as the snow was falling imagining it covered in snow and beatuiful in summer full of greenery. We really are out of season here. As the rain kept falling, Phil and his mate Jean Francoeur (JF) came and picked us up and we went to a lovely little bar to start out the afternoon with a couple of cocktails. We all went for dinner at a pub (Phil's sister, boyfriend and the 4 of us) and watched Montreal win the first playoff in hockey, a very loud and excited bar it was.
With the rain still falling we went into the city to dance the night away. The night life is so popular every club had a line up and being a Saturday night meant they were really long. We waited and got into Rouge where we stayed and danced until 3am when they closed.
I hadn't properly tried Poutine yet, so the guys took us to the best poutine place in the city and again there was a line up, selling only poutine open 24 hours, this place must be good! It was and a great way to soak up the alcohol at 4am in the morning. Home for 5am yes Montreal was proving to be the party city!
A late start on the Sunday due to being tired, I wasn't hung over actually just danced pretty sober most of the night but with it not raining we took advantage of walking the streets, went into the notre dame, china town and down by the water front. A really big city with perhaps a little less character than Quebec city and Ottawa, a fun place to spend the weekend :-)
I got the greyhound bus sunday night, saying see you later to Victoria was hard, she is off on her own travels and then moves to the UK, doing what I did but in a different order. Knowing she will have a blast and we will meet up again somewhere in this world I'm sure. A freak snow storm appeared just as the bus took off and made the going slow, not to mention our bus breaking down and us all having to swap to a new bus, at least the boarder control went smoothly. So here I am once again in New York, who would have thought twice in 3 weeks ha ha :-)
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| Parc du Mont Royal |
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| Best Poutine in Montreal |
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| Notre Dame |
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