Montreal as Canada's Cultural Capital

It is looks like we had stocked in Ottawa, sorry guys my mistake. Have been pretty busy those days. Anyway let's continue. As you remember our next stop should be in Montreal and here we go.

Well Montreal I can describe as Canada's Cultural Capital.

It is second largest city in Canada

and the second largest French-speaking city in the world after Paris.

I would say roughly that French-speaking and English-speaking half on half there.

So if your don't know French you would be ok in Montreal cause almost everybody there can speak English as long as French.

You can see a lot of Montreal in the famous movie The Whole Nine Yards with Bruce Willis and Matthew Perry.

Montreal view from the Mount Royal the triple-peaked hill located in the heart of the city.

You can have a good time at the Beaver Lake on the Mount Royal it is very nice place for picnic and rest.

The park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, who also designed New York's Central Park.

And somehow downtown of Montreal reminds me Manhattan a little.

Basically I had a strong feeling that Montreal city is some kind of mix two the most famous cities in the world – Paris and New York.

For me it is hard to say is it good or bad but that mix is really beautiful.

Tour de la Bourse (Stock Exchange Tower)

Notre-Dame Basilica in Old Montreal.

Cultural signs of the city

That is the good way to use a convertible :)

Catholic roots of the city

So I can say that Montreal is much prettiest in Spring than Winter time.  

Danger on the route from Montreal to Toronto

I would like to share with you top secret information about danger on the 401 Macdonald-Cartier Freeway between Montreal and Toronto.

We hear a lot about Upper Canada Village and we would like to see what it is about. On our way from Montreal to Toronto we have decided to have a break and we turned on exit 770 for County Road 14 to Upper Canada Village.

It was wrong decision cause we got stuck in there...

...and we were being forced to work hard.

We are lucky that we were being rescued.

There a lot of people who stuck there for more than 10 years

It is joke for sure. Upper Canada Village is such a beautiful place when you can see a lot of things from old times and learn. I will tell you more about it little bit later. 

Stay tuned!

Montreal is a European capital of North America

Today we are going from Montreal to Quebec city. This is short photo review from the European capital of North America.

From Toronto to Montreal

That is weird coincidence but every time when we were in Montreal there was a winter. This one was not exception. I wanted to scream than I want to see this city in Summer. Anyway let me share a little photos from this one of the most European city in the whole North America.

If you are going to go to Montreal from Toronto by car it would take from 5 to 7 hours, depends on how often you would like to rest.

The first our stop was a Big Apple restaurant. It was totally not worth it.

Sorry guys nothing personal but we did not like your apple pies. My wife makes it a lot better. Or maybe we just have a weird sense of food.

Anyway after this stop we were continuing our trip. It was quite hard because of bad weather. It was snowing during all the time we were on road and that is why it took 8 hours for us to reach a Montreal.

So here we are.

As I said before from my point of view Montreal is one of the most European city in Canada and North America.

However I would not compare this city with Paris as some of people does. Fortunately or unfortunately it is nothing like Paris. From some point Montreal even better although I love Paris very much.

It is pretty nice mix of American kind of city and European.

Old city is the best part of Montreal for me.

I love those small streets and old buildings

Old city has a nice restaurants. I would like to discover in Toronto something like those restaurants.

It is good to walking on those streets even during winter time.

One of the best Canadian University McGill

If you have never been there before you should visit Montreal