Au revoir

We arrived back in Montreal on Monday evening after more than eleven hours on the Adirondack train up the Hudson from Manhattan through such New York state highlights as Poughkeepsie and Schenectady. It is not like riding the dome car through the Rockies. Not to mention the hour plus time waiting at the border for inspection. And they don't even look in your bags!
So nice to be back in Montreal. We immediately noticed fewer people, less traffic and the air even felt lighter and smelled fresher, if you can believe it. Compared to midtown Manhattan, downtown Montreal seemed almost deserted. Tuesday we walked about Montreal watching for protests, found none where we were walking, although the metro orange line was shut down because of an occupation at Lionel Groulx station.
Wednesday we hiked up through the pleasant leafy streets of Mount Royal -- saw the Belvedere Kondiakor, like a big chalet, that overlooks the city from near the summit of the mountain -- then down the back side
and over to St. Laurent Blvd. to meet nephew Dan for lunch. A fantastic walk except for the couple of thunder clouds and brief rain storms we had to shelter from.



As we hiked through the park we were amazed at all the trilliums growing. What a beautiful site.



There were fields of them. Can you spot the uncommon pink ones?



Lunch was at Lawrence just down the block from Dan's office. He is working for a really exciting company called N/A. See their web site www.naisgood.com Check out what they do! It is exciting!
For lunch Norm had the dish I had thought about having - fiddleheads, leaks, Parmesan, beans and tomatoes. It was delicious. Sorry no picture. My cheese sandwich was also excellent. Dan's burger I think is posted on his page somewhere.



And last night we had dinner with Ineke and Lynn at Burger de Ville. Guess what they served -- burgers. They were some of the best burgers I've had. A quick walk around the block brought us to Kem CoBa, a delicious ice cream place named for the Montrealer man and his Vietnamese wife who make the ice cream and sorbets, and serve it to you. We had every kind from Chai, Nutella, Vanilla, Mango, chocolate and more. Next door was Fairmount bagels. Just had to check them out too. And then home to try and pack all the items we seem to have collected since arriving in Montreal. Success - got it all into two suitcases, sort of.
It has been a great trip. Looking forward to coming home to our cats and chickens and friends. See you soon.

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