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

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Yes, the convention center area is close to Old Montreal. Walk toward the river, but don't get discouraged when the first section of the city you see seems deserted. That's because the Banking District is in between the Palais and Vieux-Montreal, so there's a sort of dead zone of a couple of blocks you have to traverse before you head down the hill and toward the river. During my brief walk through the area on the trip I made a couple of months ago, I saw lots of things to look at and plenty of places to eat. I'm only sorry I won't get to try all of the great-looking restaurants.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I had a feeling there wasn't going to be a shortage of interesting restaurants around there. Thanks for the warning about the dead zone.