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<\/a>And this is the plane that is taking me home.<\/p>\nBut the airport wasn’t so bad for a change, even if I was abandoned at the check-in for a good 10 minutes.<\/p>\n
And despite what I’ve left behind me in my storage locker, my luggage weighs exactly the same as it did when I arrived. Has Strawberry Moose<\/a> put on that much weight? The Dodge is almost empty except for my suitcase, and you can see why I chose this vehicle for my excursion around Canada – with all of the seats flattened, they make a really good camper. But one thing that did stun me was that there was a “security guard” on the car park here and as I pulled up, he tried to peer into my car to see what I had. This aroused my ire, as you might expect, and I had words with him. And had I had a blunt instrument handy, he would have been stunned too. It’s quite appropriate that I’ve found an old car to photograph on my last day here in Canada. North America is a paradise for old-car hunters, but even I’m noticing that there are fewer and fewer of them lying about. This is the Chateau Ramezay, built 1705 by Pierre Coutourier as a residence for Claude de Ramezay, the Governor of Montreal. Between 1745 and 1793 it belonged to the Compagnie des Indes 1745-1793, and it’s one of the buildings to be amongst the earliest classified as a Historical Monument I say “see it” because we aren’t going to visit it. I’ve just seen the price of admission, so that is that. Someone should tell the church that the love of money is the root of all evil This is just the kind of place to come with a good book, a cold drink and a comfortable chair on a nice summer day, and I’ve made up my mind that I’m going to come here again and spend a good few days here wandering around, because it really is a nice city.
<\/p>\n<\/a>Talk about leaving stuff behind me – I had a good tidying up session first thing this morning, sorted out a pile of stuff and stuck it in the little storage unit that I’ve rented and then gone off to have a look around Montreal.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n<\/a>The view of the city from up on Mount Royal is stunning, to say the least. I took dozens of photos from up here and I’ll put them all on line in due course.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>My road down into the city took me past this nice Plymouth pick-up. 1930s, by the looks of things, and it was in quite good condition all things being considered. <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>I took about a hundred photos of Montreal in just a couple of hours (free parking for two hours on Sunday) and I am having difficulty choosing what to post. <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>You can’t visit Montreal without going to see the cathedral. It’s the Basilique de Sacr\u00e9 Coeur and situated right in the heart of Old Montreal. <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>Most (but not by any means all) of the docks in the centre of Montreal have been swept away and there’s now a very pleasant grassed area right on the banks of the St Lawrence. <\/p>\n
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