Back from Montreal. We had a great time despite the rain, and consumed more red wine, cheese, french fries and chocolate than I ever imagined possible. Tonight we are detoxing with fruit, veggies, and water and trying to re-aclimate to reality. Bummer. Montreal was a very lovely, very friendly city and we'd definitely go back.

(I'm having trouble making the captions line up with the pics...I will post more later).

I quite enjoyed riding the subway. Look at how cute the train is! Look at the wheels! The cars were much smaller than the NYC subway - it was like being on a toy subway.









Here's G in the Sherbrooke station.













Seats at the Pie-IX station.











Old signage.



















Side of a Tim Horton's truck. We went to a gallery called Articule to see an exhibit of photographs of "mobile food advertising" by Diana Shearwood, which included a bunch of pics of trucks like this. It was pretty cool.







The Quebec flag a-flying.













The outside of our hotel, the Hotel XIXe Siecle, in Old Montreal. This place was awesome - I totally recommend staying here.









Snack bar at the botanical garden. We trekked up there, but then decided not to pay and go inside, so we just walked around the gardens outside.









Also near the botanic gardens was the Olympic Stadium so we poked around the outside of that too. It was very surreal - totally abandoned and neglected. We figured out that the part we were exploring had been the parking lot. It felt like walking around a deserted moon colony...