It had been 8 years since I last went to Montréal, although it was in the summer. Turns out Montréal is cold and much less lively in the winter, who would have known? :) Still, it gave me a chance to see some museums I had missed up to now.
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.
