Now, after more than filling dinner at La Iguana and a brief excursion to the Montreal Jazz Festival last night when the city was burned some calories, and an officer who would bike to help me gain weight to keep the person designated by the Montreal cuisine delicious, at least somewhat under control. My bike ride was to start at 8:30 clock, but on this glorious day, Canada Day no less, our national holiday, I started to go in advance.
I left bright and bushy tail7 to watch the hotel and walked around Old Montreal. Jacques Cartier Square to watch was nearly 7 to a few people from outdoor cafes and street vendors open their stalls empty. Further south, the sun reflects of the silver-domed Bonsecours Marché, I noticed that runners were collected in a red T-shirt with the slogan "Run for Canada" and "great things for Canada" in the port dress at Quai Jacques Cartier.
In furtherInvestigation, I discovered that all these athletes were donations to the Canadian Olympic team for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver as part of a charity event organized by HBC. I asked some of the participants and found that it was the race will officially start at 8 clock. Since I had about a half hour, I decided to explore the area around the Quai Jacques Cartier and went east, to the Quai de l'Horloge (literally "Clock Pier"). I walked on this earth, until Ia clock tower, reached the "Tour de l'Horloge, recalls a offwhite structure, built in 1992, the sailors of the Merchant Navy who lost their lives during the First World War. The Jacques Cartier Bridge is to be seen clearly in the background.
After my first study was to get closer to race time. Now it was a great animation team urged the runners to make calistenics to warm up for the great race it was. Many fitness experts on the panel were thereCountdown to the music ("a-one, 1:00 to 2:00, 1:00 to 3:00 - all in French, of course), while members of increased mass, they moved their arms and legs, fists and pumped all types of warm-up to prepare for launch. Then, a few minutes before 8 clock, all the runners in a fenced area enclosed by a white picket fence and began just moments after the official countdown. Just in time at 8 clock, the door opened and started the runnersRunning for Canada to raise funds for the Canadian Olympic team.
Well, you see, this exercise made me look forward to starting my own business schedule, starting with a bike ride in the morning. I walked about 10 minutes east approximately Roule, a bike rental and repair shop at 27 rue de la Commune, a privileged point of access for travelers who want to discover in Montreal with the bike. Roule Bicycles can be rented hourly or daily basis, and Ca (as well as "known MontrealWheels ") also offers tours and this is what I wanted to take today. Led by a licensed guide Guidatour city unaccompanied.
Before I went to the store to get fitted, I (as a very comfortable touring bike, I might add) my bike, a helmet, a detailed map of Montreal bike and a bottle of water. Our tour group had gathered outside, we had a couple of Vermont, a young New York City, and a local man, living on the south bank of the SanLawrence River from Montreal, who wanted to take the tour with our licensed guide, Bruno.
First, Brown is in the harbor at King Edward Quay where we cycled all the way to the top, where we had a wonderful view of the skyline of Old Montreal. From there he went to the east of Jacques Cartier Square and pushed our bikes in the square slightly tilted. Once on top, ahead of Montreal City Hall, we're back on our bikes and went east to rue Berri impressed when we wereby Viger Gare, a former train station in style castle that was built so popular in early railway era in Canada. Bruno has shown that this building is probably restored in the next two years and grew up in a hotel.
Rue Berri is an important north-south artery in Montreal and what is great about it is that it is recognized that bike paths are completely separate from the road. We drove from UQAM (Université de Québec àMontréal), Bruno Alma Mater and inflated some hills sloping still stretched. We had officially reached the Plateau Mont-Royal area. At the top, north of Sherbrooke Street, we biked to the Parc Lafontaine, the main green area in the plateau area. The park was established in 1908, with two artificial lakes, tennis courts and bowling green. Bruno told us that in winter when the streams in a beautifully illuminated ice rink. We stopped for a fewMinutes in a quiet area of the park. At the northern end, there was a map of cycle network extended Montreal, directly across from Maison des Cyclists ", fans of the bicycle.
Bruno is an avid biker himself and said he had sold his car some time ago and used the bicycle as his main mode of transport. As a keen biker, we treat exchanged on networks and expand their efforts our city by bike, and he made them conscious of the fact that apparently BayStreet, in downtown Toronto now has an official track cycling, I was not aware of. He also said that La Fontaine Park, cycle 252 km east of the eastern suburbs around the city of Sherbrooke. predestined We both agreed that the Quebec Eastern Townships is just another area for cyclists.
Then we went north to the Parc de La Fontaine and Bruno took us to some of the side streets that the staircase function of Montreal.Our guide enlightened us that these stairs were outside the building in use for families to build very large, sometimes 17 or 18 children. So people need all the space on the ground that it could and did not want to waste space on the staircase. Also, European travelers often wonder why the houses have flat roofs. Bruno explained that the snow would be in place flat roofs as insulation in winter and keep down heating costs. Second, the pitched roofs would be dangerous asSnow could slip and fall right on the sidewalk.
From the side streets we went to a side street a "Ruelle verte" or "Green Mile". The name derives from the fact that people have started to have dedicated their time and attention to the greening of these small roads. The city of Montreal, provided the plants and vines, making them more attractive, while residents living plants and flowers. Montreal has 12 of these "Vertes Ruelle" now and has started shooting firstbad side streets in small shrines of the city's green.
At the end of this cul-de Bruno showed us some examples of graffiti officially allowed to demonstrate a recent initiative of the city, local graffiti artists, their legal work instead of defacing buildings with graffiti unwanted fees. Bruno also mentioned that graffiti is walking through the city, and I made a note for my next visit.
World Cup passion was in full swing when we reachedIntersection of Rachel and St. Laurent Streets. The residential area has gone through a lot of Portuguese immigrants and one of the local bars was conducted with a live broadcast of the World England-Portugal football match on the big screen. The bar and terrace were absolutely packed and people were singing, shouting and making noise, and there was no doubt which way they were. The northeast corner of the intersection is the Parc des Amériques, the characteristics of the project with a bowElements of various Latin cultures. A nearby church and colorful Portuguese Bruno said, painted a large number of homes in the neighborhood, has vivid colors, which raise a preference on the part of the Portuguese people, make things a bit '.
We also found that the Rue St-Laurent, also known as the "principal", in fact, the main street, immigrants in the city after arriving in the port agreed to settle. For this reason, Rue St-Laurent muchethnically mixed, and Bruno said that many new immigrants have opened shop here, as they would be able to win the game Anglo west of the "main" and had French speaking clients who live east of Rue St-Laurent. And 'the road which divides the city official in the East and West, so if you look at a Glance Montreal address, if it is "east" or "West" after the name of the street. What you need to decide how to activate the RueSt-Laurent.
By the neighborhood plateau we drove west until you reach Jeanne Mance Park at the foot of Mont Royal, another good green space and a popular spot for picnics, sunbathing, playing football, tennis or frisbee. We rested a bit 'and then on Prince Arthur Street, a pedestrian area, which continues today, a wide selection of restaurants with outdoor terraces, the functions of family type. Next lanterns and ancient cobblestone streets add to the atmospherethis area.
Prince Arthur, we went to the west and south, in the "McGill Ghetto" area, a residential neighborhood bustles with the rushes, and offers students and frat houses and cheap restaurants. Bruno has created Campus McGill University, Montreal, the oldest university in 1921 by Scottish fur James McGill. McGill University is the center of the "Golden Mile", once the site of most middle-class Scots. It is said that in the late 19th andEarly 20th century about 70% of Canada's wealth in the hands of the residents of Golden Square Mile, and some of that power and wealth in a few Victorian mansions to luxury focus.
At the University there have been built within walking distance of downtown Montreal, the collection of skyscrapers in the last 40 years that the center of Montreal provides the business world. We stopped at the Place Ville Marie, a commercial high-rise towerComplex in 1959 which gave rise to the network of underground channels of Montreal gave. Looking north on Avenue McGill College, had passed an aspect of McGill University, in the light of the mountain, through the metal cross on Mount Royal.
A few blocks east Bruno took us to a small side street, where we have a peak at the Dome of the Queen Mary Queen of the World Cathedral, which is most of the skyscrapers around it made the right tone. Bruno said this is a popular place for filmMakers. From there it was not far from Victoria Square, originally a Victorian garden in the middle of the Second Empire, Renaissance Revival and the stories most of which have since disappeared. The course was recently redesigned to reflect its original layout and the surrounding district was renamed the Montreal International. One of the main attractions in Victoria Square is an authentic Parisian Art Nouveau Metro Gate, "Entourage Grimaldi," according to the architect Ettore Grimaldi designed on behalf ofThe inputs of the Paris Metro. The Régie Autonome Transports Parisiens (RATP), offered this installation for Motnreal as a gift in 1966.
Victoria Square is a recent example of a successful program of urban renewal is now wider sidewalks with seating for up to 40% more pedestrians. The parking area have been eliminated, creating more than 1,300 new parking spaces in the underground garage area. Trees, street furniture and lighting to further improveCharm of this place. Montreal World Trade Centre, a complex integration Nordheimer building dating back to 1888, is located on the east side of Victoria Square. At the southern end of Rue St-Jacques (or St. James Street) until 1960 in the main shopping street in Montreal, and the edge of Old Montreal.
The central part of the tour complete, we returned to Old Montreal and enjoyed in the old rooms and look for the cobbled streets. Our tour endedPointe-à-Calliere, Montreal Museum of History and Archaeology, where Bruno and other members of the group adopted the cycling. The nice thing was that under the guidance I was able to keep the bike up to 8 clock, the opportunity to explore on your own, my. Bruno had some advice on where to go and he advised me on the bike path along the Lachine Canal waterway check out Old Montreal in 1825 inaugurated the snakes of the application. My research on a bikewould continue ...
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