Ines & Oliver on Tour

As our days of travel seem to be the best days when it comes to the weather, we made a habit of looking for walks or trails on the way and stopping en route instead of heading straight to the next city, in order to make the most of those sunny days.

This time we went for Mer bleue and luckily it turned out to have been yet another excellent decision. ☀️😎🍁

Not just because of the cornucopia of wildlife you can spot there…

… but the area also offers also some great walks and a trail for running! 🤩

*Don’t get mislead by this picture: to the left and right of this board walk there is no solid ground but ‘bog’, a kind of wetland similar to marsh or swamp but biologically different*.

We totally liked Montréal! Not quite as cute as Québec but also less touristy and as our hotel was located in the city centre, restaurants, museums, parks etc. were all within walking distance. 😃

*Arrival-day-evening-stroll along the Saint Lawrence* River

Église unie Saint-James (Saint James United Church)

*Blick auf Montréal vom Parc du Mont-Royal aus* (woher die Stadt wohl ihren Namen hat? 🤔)

Mount Royal borders Mount Royal cemetery which we walked through in order to get to Saint Joseph’s Oratory of Mount Royal. The cemetery hosts quite a range of wild animals. We saw a groundhog, probably a marten (?) and this really big woodpecker!

*Pileated woodpecker, largest extant woodpecker species in North America*

Top of Saint Joseph’s, there’s usually a nice garden/park-like area around the building but unfortunately it’s been under reconstruction.

*Am 19.4. bot sich uns frühmorgens dieser Blick aus dem Hotelfenster: auf dem am Tag zuvor noch grünen Innenhof liegt gar nicht einmal so wenig Schnee und es schneit munter vor sich hin…*

*Also wieder einmal Zeit, sich ins Museum zu begeben* 🤩

We chose the Musée des beaux-arts Montréal and we were not disappointed. Both of us being art-lovers, and having been to numerous galleries together, we enjoyed the exhibition a lot, especially the sections displaying Canadian and Contemporary art.

Mer bleue 20.4.

Montréal 17.4.-20.4.