Montreal - Canada continued

Yippee we were now in Montreal! We started our orientation by stopping at the top of Mont Royal and snapping shots of the city underneath us. We also were staying in a hostel for two nights too which was nice to have an actual bed instead of a ground sheet to sleep on.

That night we celebrated by going out to a lovely italian restaurant named Ferrari's and all having a drink, as i was finally in an 18+ drinking age area. Montreal nightlife is said to be some of the best in the world so we had a fair amount of fun ducking in and out of little irish pubs and sitting watching pool and then finally going to a couple of little nightclubs (where we got free entry, all the better) before trying the local specialty - poutine (basically chips, cheese and gravy... it seems all i am eating is rubbish doesn't it?? trust me i wasn't eating that type of food all the time haha)

The next day i wandered about montreal visiting the underground city (because it gets so badly snowy there), the Tam Tam Jam ('for free-loving spirits', tam tam drums and little hippy-ish stalls), and the Italian and Old Town provinces.

Our last canadian destination was Quebec. For those of you that don't know it already, Quebec was by far the most french of all the places we visited. Just about everything was parlez-vous francais, and it was just g.o.r.g.e.o.u.s. with little cobbled streets and french provincial buildings and the big citadelle from 'back in the day'. We first visited it at night after dinner at our camp and went over via ferry, which gave us a beautiful view of all the city lights. we stopped by le petit cochon (the little pig) for dessert where i had a special maple cake and belgian hot chocolate (again, a great view of my diet, hey? really, i don't eat like this all the time!!) and then we went wandering for a bit.

Quebec was by far my favourite canadian city, and has really made me want to see europe for all the gorgeous alley-ways and history and heritage.