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.

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[surliminal.livejournal.com]

Well Vieux Montreal is lovely. I mostly remember amazing artisan's markets - i bought LOTS of local jewellery..

[johnnyeponymous.livejournal.com]

Hey, if the two of you have a spare evening on Thursday, I'd love it if you joined us at Au Pied d Cochcon for dinner. It's a part of my "Meals with Folks I never See!" series
Chris

[trinfaneb.livejournal.com]

Mount Royal Park has a special place in my heart for its beauty and also because I impressed a geography professor by mentioning how much it reminded me of Central Park NYC and he looked it up and indeed both were designed by the same guy :)

[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.

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

Montreal fandom is organising a restaurant outing on the Sunday afternoon, if you two feel like joining us.

[spacecrab.livejournal.com]

I'll be getting in on Wednesday evening 8/5. (Bit the bullet and paid the horrendous airfare.) Look forward to seeing both of you.

[kateyule.livejournal.com]

I am seriously looking forward to poutine, or perhaps merguez sausage "avec leur frites", at Frite Alors!

There's discussion of Montréal food over at antici_food, though I haven't really sat down with the information yet.

We get in to Montréal late afternoon on Tuesday the 4th, and are heading to Qeébec City and small-town Eastern Townships after the con.

[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!