Montreal

 Our last day in Montreal, we toured Basilica Notre Dame. Which was beautiful but surprising small.

We walked the waterfront then made our way to China Town.

Then took the subway to the amazing botanical gardens, we have never seen anything like this, it was huge, many acres! Lots of greenhouses, lots of variety of outdoor sections, such as Japan, China, Native American, even edible gardens. We had lunch here and our salads were made from ingredients grown at the garden! 

We passed the site of a previous Olympics on our way back to catch the subway.

We enjoyed our last night having pizza and strolling around. 

Early 8:00 am flight home and our first time to fly first class, so of course we had to have morning beverages! A great way to celebrate a very wonderful trip!

 

Montreal

 We spent 3 wonderful days in Montreal, the city is comprised of lots of little neighborhoods, each with a distinctive feel. We wandered around and explored as many as we could, Old Montreal, Old Port,  Mt Royal, Little Italy, The Village, Mile End. Our hotel provided a boxed breakfast delivered to the room each morning. 

Our first morning we wandered around then took a subway to the Mile End to find what is suppose to be the best bagel in Montreal, which are a little different than a NY style one, also sesame seed is the go to served with butter not cream cheese, although we did purchase a guacamole cream cheese mixture to eat with our bagel and called it lunch.

We then walked to the Jean-Talon Market because we love local markets, this one was huge.

We then took a bus to Mt Royal to go to St Josephs Oratory. We lucked out that there was an organ concert while we were there put on by a famous organ music writer. The views were amazing and quite a story about this place, check out the story. Last picture his the heart of Brother Andre Bessette who was known for healing people.

We had a delicious burger for dinner then walked around our neighborhood taking in the beautiful evening