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2020-02-14 01:01
in Canada, Ntrips, Trips
I went back to Montreal for the Porsche Ice Force+ Program at Circuit Mecaglisse. It was a lot of fun, and this gave me a bit of extra time in Montreal, so I made the best of it.
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Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal has a great light show, called Aura, which was well worth it (pictures not allowed during the show though):
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The next morning, I went around town for a few pictures in the many churches and couple of museums:
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I went to check out the museum of modern art, and it was disappointing:
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The observatory allowed or nice pictures:
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Next was the much better Museum of Fine Arts, which was worth a good 3H, although I only had 2H-ish:
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They had a special exhibition on Egypt and mummies, that was pretty good:
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Last, I went to meet my friend Nicholas Zin and we went up to Saint Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal:
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Then came the fantastic Porsche Ice Force+ Program at Circuit Mecaglisse North of Montreal
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And on the way back to the airport, I stopped at Montreal's Ecomuseum Zoo. It was quite cold, but cool to see animals happily frolicking in the snow:
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