The view outside our hotel, the Ramada Renaissance, 3625 Avenue du Parc, Montreal

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The view outside our hotel, the Ramada Renaissance, 3625 Avenue du Parc, Montreal
The view outside our hotel, the Ramada Renaissance, 3625 Avenue du Parc, Montreal

30 Dec 1988, Fri (Montreal)
We washed the car as it had changed colour from blue to brown and white from the snow and salt on the roads. From there we took a detour and caught a car ferry across Lake Champlain into the state of Vermont. We were once again in one of the five New England states. The scenery seemed to change immediately. Very pretty. Part of lake frozen, some people fishing on it. Really like New England. It was only a brief side trip because we soon returned to New York state just before crossing the border into the province of Quebec, Canada. Slight hiccup at border because Liz’s US Visa expires January 2. Causing a little concern. The Canadians we worried that the US authorities would not let her back in and issue a new I-94 and then they would be stuck with deporting her. In the end they let us through. Drove a further 40 minutes to Montreal and did not have too much hassle finding Ramada Renaissance and checked in for two nights. After unloading and a quick freshening up we were out and walking to the tourist info centre. Was it ever cold and icy. There was snow all over the footpaths mixed in with ice. It was quite an effort. While we were there it never got above -10 degrees and Quebec city which is 160 km away was -26! Found a money machine which was handy. Walked about 2 hours but eventually found the right place. Got great book on self-guided walking tours.
Montreal is famous for its underground city apart from its obvious French influence. We quickly discovered how to get there with our newly gained free guides and did a combined walking and metro tour. There are over 13 km of shops etc underground and you can go all over the city without ever going out into the nasty weather outside. It was brilliant. After our tour and general look around we went to a very nice French restaurant called the L'isle de France where we had another superb dinner. I got to practice my French again and the waiter was most pleased. He even patronised me by saying I spoke French very well. What a crawler. He was hoping for a good tip which he got as we had a $15 discount coupon courtesy of a Montreal hospitality package that our hotel was participating in. We only discovered this coupon after we had been seated and it was for the most money in the entire book, what luck! As a further bonus because we had made our hotel reservation with American Express, the hotel, courtesy of Amex gave us free tickets to the Marc Chagall exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (on loan from Musee National D'Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou) and also to the Botanical Gardens. That was a value of $14 and $4, not bad in anyone's language.

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