Our plan for this 2 week holiday is to rent a car now and tour around the Eastern Townships. Guess what? It is Thanksgiving and no cars are available. Stay tuned for new plan....
Yesterday we walked old Montreal.
Queen Victoria watching over us as we walked.
Road side beauties.
Even our lunch in the old town was good.
The fries in Montreal look well done but taste delicious. For dinner we went out for burgers, at Burger de Ville with Ineke, Norm’s cousin and our friend Lynn. We ate the juicy burgers so fast, no photos.
Today, Saturday we off for breakfast and then Jean Talon market with Ineke and Lynn.
Breakfast was outstanding! We went to Larry’s up St. Laurent The menu alone was an experience.
Some food just for us and some we shared. Pikelets were little pancakes plus roasted potatoes we shared.
The breakfast sandwich was excellent and Norm raves about his moist scrambled eggs and sausage.
After breakfast we checked out the butcher shop and bakery that is part of Larrys’s restaurant. These are called bombalina.
Next Jean Talon market. We almost wished we hadn’t eaten so well because there was so many things here to try. The fruits and vegetables were stunning, especially the peppers.
Wish we could buy food to take home to make dinner but we are off tomorrow.
Brussel Sprouts by the stalk.
The music made you feel like you were in Paris or maybe Montreal.
Next stop Caffe Italia for gelato and cappuccino.
Fascinating to watch Italian men gather in the cafe to watch a soccer game, not buying coffee and loudly arguing how to get the right match on the tv.
This Italian district was such fun. I have never seen so many aisles of pasta and this was just the dried noodles at the grocery store, Milano.
We had one more stop at a book store as we headed home, Drawn and Quarterly, an off beat kind of store.
Here we are, Lynn, our friendly Italian, and Ineke our kind host and cousin of Norm. A great day of fun, eating and shopping.
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