Day 6: Playing tourist

This day was dedicated to seeing the sights on the Montreal Island. We had a light breakfast (Pizza, fries and Ice tea!) and then headed off to catch the 2 p.m. double decker bus tour of Montreal. We arrived at the tour bus’s office at around 2:15 but we were lucky, the bus was running late.

There isn’t really much else to say. Pictures will tell the story.

This here is one of the 100 or so churches in Montreal.

This building is located in the old part of Montreal but I don’t remember why it was important…..

This is also in the old part of Montreal. Taking 1 hour tours of the city with horses is quite popular.

This is Rue Jacque-Cartier. There are many nice restaurants here and it’s very lively at night. Regularly, you can find someone playing music there or someone putting on a show of some sort.

This is the Montreal Science Center I believe. I’ll double check later.

This is Montreal’s port. Home to drug dealers and Mafia's from around the world!

Some interesting apartments on the other side of the river.

This picture I don’t find interesting but there is a little side note attached to it. In Montreal whenever a building is built, the contractors must put aside 1% of the cost of the building to create a work of art. An good idea I think.

The top of this church is the highest point in Montreal. It’s name escapes me. I really need to pay more attention to these things.

Olympic Stadium. Looks great. If only we had built something like that for our olympics.

Well about 1 hour into the tour we hit the top of Mont Real. What did I see there? Aside from the great view of Montreal? I saw that a downpour was heading towards us and I was stuck on the top of the bus with no umbrella, jacket or anyway to protect myself from the rain. Yay. The story ends well though. We made it back to the city before the rain hit us.

Well I’d write more but the plane I’m on is about to land. Bye!