Pat's Australian Adventures: Foggin Montréal

Now In Ottawa. Took the bus a little more then 2 hours. Best experience out of Montreal was when Danielle and her friend Mel took me out to a restaurent called l'Academie. The food was groovy, had a salmon pasta alfrado based, magnific. but before that we went to a ''couche tard'' corner store that sells alcool. Bought a bottle of cheep wine and brought it to the restaurent. its a BYOB restaurent. I guess a lot of them around Montreal are like that. bring your own wine. sweet deal. I never knew it excisted. I also introduced me to the metro and subway system. seems complicated at first but its preaty simple. would take me a little while to get used to. Now I am in Ottawa at my brother mike and his girlfriend mel's crib, actually Wendover, 40 min outside of Ott. It took the bus a little more then 2 hours from Mtl. I went from sleeping on a fouton to sleeping on a air matress on cement floor, I had the best sleep in a while.

After stoping for lunch at dusty's for lunch on Parc st. had a greek salade with a sandwich au Jambon. I ordered in french and the waitress started to try english but i refused to order in english. She really had a hard time understanding i wanted it on brown bread. we got it figured out eventually and the food was really good. Keeped on walking and after about 5 hours of hiking around the city, finally found the University of Montréal, only problem is that its 4pm. and Danielle's course was only done at 5:45pm that day. so I sat on a bench with my headphones on my ears, battery's where dead since the train ride. It made me look occupied headbanging around town. in the picture bellow we see my friend Elliot and I waiting for the courses to finish.

steep hill I climbed for nothing, thinking i was going in the good direction. cul de sac

statue

Sweet old buildings and old houses everywheres. I was glad I got lost so it gave me the chance to view a bunch of sceans and gave my quads and calfs a good workout.

Finaly roads

still in that park

In Montréal, I arrived at the end of the long train ride. left at 5pm Moncton monday oct 25, arrived in motreal at 11am tuesday, oct 26 with maybe 3 hours of sleep in me. Economie class is hard to sleep in. So now the hunt is on, to find Université de Montreal, in this picture I found myself lost after already a a good hour of walking with all my gear. somewheres behind McGill University in the parc. I met soo many joggers in this park who where smiling at me. Not sure if it was because of my stunning good looks or cause they knew I was lost with my 50 lbs backpack and a carry on being lugged around the middle of a city park.