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| canada |
| montreal 2003 |
| My friend, Paulo, and I took a trip to Montreal, Quebec for Saint-Jean Baptiste day festivities in the last week of June, 2003. I had been a year earlier on my trip across Canada and had a great time, so I decided to go back. It was a five day trip, beautiful weather, lots of great food and another long night of Ste-Jean Baptise day celebrations. |
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| Our hostel, l'Auberge de Jeunesse, was just 10 minute walk from downtown. We spent the first day wandering around in the heat. Above is Paulo looking for books at a tent bookstore along the St. Lawrence River and on the left is Paulo, exhausted, after I made him walk around for five hours. |
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| Outside a cool restaurant on St-Laurent. |
| PFK (Poulet Frite Kentucky) = KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) |
| Quintessental Montreal, a flower stand in downtown. Below, Paulo expressing his anger at me after a long day of sightseeing in 38C heat. |
| I swear the one on the far left looks just like Mike, back in the day. |
| Paulo, in front of the Portugese Flag in old Montreal. |
| A lampost decorated with skateboards and shoes...only in Montreal. |
| Musique Plus, downtown. |
| A Vietnamese tea shop near Chinatown. |
| Music in the park. |
| Paulo checking out a cop car. |
| Boo, the Habs, Boo! |
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| Left and above, setting up for the Montreal Jazz Festival the following week. |
| Paulo and I with a Montreal speciality, smoked meat! |
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| We met this guy, Ryan, at the hostel. He had driven up from Boston for a few days. We all hiked up Mont Royal together. Left, Paulo on top of Mont Royal. Right, Ryan and Paulo taking a rest near the top of the mountain. Below, Ryan and myself at Lac Au Castors (Beaver Lake) at the summit. |
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| We met Stevie, travelling by herself, at the hostel too, and spent Ste-Jean Baptiste Day hanging out and drinking on the shores of the St. Lawrence. Later that night, was the parade and a huge free concert near the Olympic Stadium. I also met up with another friend from Vancover, Jamie-Lynn, who was stopping in Montreal on her way back from Universite Ste-Anne in Nova Scotia. |
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| Another friend of mine, Kerem, at his university in Montreal. He was in my class at Universite Ste-Anne the previous year. |
| Another roommate from the hostel, Stephan, going for it with a guy in a squirrel costume. |
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| I met Linda, from Switzerland, at the hostel one night and a bunch of us all went out to Bar Tokyo together. |