Marc's Public Blog - Trips to other locations

I went up the tower for a few shots

The next morning, went for the peace bridge and a couple of museums:

found some michoko birds

they're supposed to be thieves, but they're pretty

I then went to the Military Museums first and then went to the Hangar Flight Museum before going back to the airport to fly home.

Before you ask, I was there for the Porsche Ice Experience Driving Course at Circuit Mecaglisse.

got a quick-ish direct flight from SFO

Montréal was indeed snowy all over

I had a great dinner at Jerome Ferrer's Europea

The next morning, I went to check out the RedPath Museum in the university:

you can still bike in winter

They have a great collections of shells and pretty rocks :)

From there, I took the underground paths to avoid the cold. It's actually quite hard to route underground. I tried for a while and eventually gave up and went back to the surface with the cold weather.
I next went to the Musee Grevin, which was quite nice:

Next, I went to visit the Google Office again

Interestingly they are testing electric busses with fast recharging stations

Next, I walked in the bitter cold towards Centre d'Histoire de Montréal:

the universal expo of 1967 looked great

look

Turns out I still had a bit of time left to see Pointe à Callière that had been significantly improved in the last years. Well worth the visit to see the foundations of the old city:

As I mentioned, there was a bit of snow:

freezing rain is fun

seems fun to have to scrape that

they did a good job clearing the main streets though

Yeah, frozen river:

looks like this pickup truck is just parked on the frozen river next to where the boat

Habitat 67 across the mostly frozen river:

The next morning, I started with the Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal, which doens't look so fancy from the outside but is one of my favourite ones inside. I went early in the morning during the dead season, so it was almost empty, great for pictures:

Next, I went Centre des Sciences de Montréal:

A fun thing is that building, including museums have big rooms for the artic cold jackets that people wear outside, including eskimo-like boots:

And last, but not least, I stopped by Chateau Ramezay before it was time for me to head out and drive to Circuit Mecaglisse:

And that was it for Montreal.

NZ is indeed not that far from the antarctic:

You could get a ride in Hagglung, the all terrain carriers they use there. They can handle quite rough terrain

Of course, they had penguins:

Another room was the cold/wind chill room:

brr...

Other misc stuff, including movies:

two kinds of planes to get there, 5 to 8H trip due to the lack of real jet runway on the ice