Montreal - Part I

DAY ONE

Weather: Ottawa - raining, about 15 degrees

Montreal - raining, about 23 degrees

We caught our train at 9am and while waiting there was a group of teenagers waiting to go on their band trip for Toronto, which their train left a few minutes before ours.

There was only a few stops between Ottawa and Montreal, and it was such a beautiful ride. Totally stress-free.

We arrived in Montreal around 11:30am and was slowly learning our way around the city. We arrived at a metro station and bought ourselves a weekly pass (totally worth it!) and lugged our suitcase through the station.

I knew what stop to get off at, and had my trusty map ready - I just had forgotten to write down the address of the Bed & Breakfast down before going. I knew the name of it "Le Gite Dezery", and the street it was on - but it turns out my sense of direction is not so good. We headed down the wrong way of the street, and finally asked someone who told us the place was at the top of the hill - not the bottom! The B & B was a little northeast of downtown Montreal - but with metros everywhere - that wasn't a problem

We finally found it - and it was good that I told the owner to check us in at 1pm beforehand, because that gave us time to get lost - which we did!

We got into this really gorgeous room with a couch and flatscreen. It was a very modern room. We headed out to explore the rest of the day out in Montreal - to pretty much learn that most museums or anything we wanted to see - wasn't open on Mondays!

We checked out the underground shopping areas and cruised the streets when it wasn't raining. We decided to head back to our room to actually plan our trip out and see what we could do on Monday. We ended up catching a quick nap (getting lost can be pretty exhausting) and then headed out downtown for dinner! Our plan was to just search for anything that looked good.

We found Guido & Angelina's on rue University, and ended up sitting down just as the hockey game was starting. It was more of a casual Italian restaurant. Will ended up eating a tortellini dish with prosciutto meat. I ended up eating this whole wheat linguine with vegetables (kind of like a pasta primavera) and we each had some wine.

We had no room for dessert - as we had a pretty late lunch (around 2pm) - which seemed to be the case for the rest of the week.

We headed back home as we had to prepare ourselves for the long day we had planned for Tuesday when more things would be open.

Pictures from top to bottom: Will in the front of our Bed & Breakfast Le Gite Dezery; Our bedroom in the Bed & Breakfast Le Gite Dezery; Will on the train to Montreal, before the train got full at the Ottawa Station.