Ticket to ride

[randy_byers]

Well, Sharee and I have our plane tickets for Montréal, so I guess we're really going to do this. We'll be arriving late on Saturday the 1st, playing tourist in the city for the next few days, then checking in to the Delta Centre Ville on the 6th for the World Science Fiction Convention. I've wanted to go to Montréal for a long time, so this is pretty exciting. Anybody have any recommendations for what to see and do there? The Jardin Botanique is already on the list. It looks like the convention is being held right next door to the old part of the city, Vieux-Montréal.

Comments

[onyxlynx (from livejournal.com)]

You'd have to work to find bad food in Montréal. Although I haven't been there in thirty years, last time the food ranged from excellent to merely very good.

There were music clubs around McGill U; there should be new ones now. If you do museums, there's Place des Artes. If you do subways, there's the Métro, and it is fine. There is or used to be a planetarium down by Gare Windsor. The hockey Holy of Holies is near Atwater.

If you had a month, you still wouldn't have enough time in Montréal!

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

So I guess I'll just stick a fork in it. Thanks for the tip about the music scene. The guidebook I have claims the subway is slow and prone to delays. Hm.

By the way, do I know you?

Um, Yeah, Actually

[onyxlynx (from livejournal.com)]

Which is to say we've shared meals at Potlatch in Seattle and you send me Chunga, which hides when I want to LoC it, like now, but otherwise I am a mere acquaintance who stops by about once every six months and is moved to comment about half the time.

I don't remember the subway being slow, but it has been a while. Map here.

Re: Um, Yeah, Actually

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Okay, I think I have a pretty good idea who you are now. And yeah, the Metro is brilliant. We got week passes, and we got our money's worth within two days.