Panorama of Old Montréal
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Group photo in Québec City
In each city, we began with a tour by a local guide. Our overall leader and the two city guides were excellent.
The tour went well. There was a bit of rain the first full day, but I never used my umbrella. We focused mainly on Old Montréal and Old Québec City. In our free time, I visited Montréal's Gay Village one day and the Botanical Garden and Olympic Park on another day. I also made sure to try peanut butter dumplings in Montréal.
Besides the standard tourist sights, we had private concerts in each city — an organ concert in Montréal and a chamber music concert in Québec City.
I have four sets of photos:
- Around Montréal and Québec City (6 photos; view them individually to see the captions.)
- Montréal Museum of Fine Arts (6 photos; view the photos individually to see the captions.)
- Montmorency Falls, Québec City
(5 photos) - Montréal Botanical Garden (9 photos)
This was my favorite painting at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts — laugh-out-loud funny. Click the photo to view it larger.
It just so happened that my cousin's daughter Lisa and two of her children were visiting Montréal at the same time! We arranged to tour the Botanical Garden together. Here I am with Lisa and Ben (Emma is taking the photo).
So glad you had the opportunity to visit this amazing city. Montreal always has seemed a perfect melding of Old World and New World. I loved ordering a meal at Burger King in my extremely limited French!
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ReplyDeleteLooks and sounds like a great trip. We love Montreal, where we have good friends and hope to visit Quebec City in the future. All Good!