Thursday...back home

Still standing, pretty much as we left things. We have returned home and the allergies have returned as well. C'était un voyage très bon.

Our last day in Montreal

Sandy and Janet took us out to eat for our last evening in Montreal. We met at Casa Greque which is located on rue Prince-Arthur. This street is closed to vehicles and is lined with restaurants of nearly any cuisine. Most of them allow you to bring your own wine or beer for your meal.

There is no shortage of buskers around here. They are all quite good as they are required to get licensed and pass auditions.

Toni endorses Juliette & Chocolat products.



A beautiful city park at the end of the street.

rue Sherbrooke

Some snapshots along rue Sherbrooke on the way to the art museum.



Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton married here.

Old mansions and high-rise apartment buildings fit in some how with the newer office buildings.

Outside McGill University.

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Wednesday we went to the art museum, Musee des Beaux-Arts. We were lucky enough to be there for the Cuban art exhibit. This is one exhibit that will not be shown in the United States any time soon. It was both wonderful and enlightening.

Tuesday May 13

This was a very busy day but not many photo ops. Here we are at a pizzeria in the Village. The weather was so nice they threw the windows open. The top photo is typical of the buildings in this area with apartments above one or two stories of restaurants or boutique shops.

Chocolat

Toni makes the hard choices.

Along St Catherine Street

Place des Arts, the main concert hall for Montreal.

The Irish Embassy

Smoked meat sandwiches and a Guinness, mmmmm. The sandwiches are gone.

Monday evening

One of many skyscrapers off of St Catherine St.

A side street coming alive at dusk off of St. Catherine with Mont Royal in the background.

Sunday brunch and reunion

Steve Cullen and his wife, Cherie.

Photo albums and cameras abound. Cherie, Janet, Sandy, Toni, Bill L., Bill C. with a jazz band in the background.

Jardin Nelson. A very popular spot for brunch.

All the seating is outdoors. They have an ingenious system of mechanical awnings and umbrellas and space heaters to accommodate a wide range of weather conditions.

"Catching up" for the first time. Around the table, Toni, Bill, Ron LeBlanc, son, Bryon, Bryon's wife, Myrna, then Bill Cullen's daughter, Catherine and her boyfriend, Andrew. Bryon is a grandson of Peggy Nosworthy Johnston (and my second cousin) and Catherine is a great granddaughter of Myrtle Nosworthy (and my second cousin once removed).

Bill, Bill Cullen, Sandy Farr, Sandy's partner, Janet.

Nosworthy reunion

Bill with Maralyn LeBlanc (Peggy's daughter and my first cousin once removed), and her husband Ron in back.

Sandy Farr (Yvonne's daughter), Bill Lavery (grandson of Donald), brothers Bill and Steve Cullen (grandsons of Myrtle).

Sandy and Bill again.

French restaurant

Toni makes the hard decisions.

Sunday afternoon sights

Champs-des-Mars. These are remnants of the original wall that once protected Old Montreal. They were only just uncovered in 1992.

A busker in Place Jacques-Cartier.

Artist's alley just off of Place Jacques-Cartier.

Breakfast at Place Jacques-Cartier

Yours truly, well fed at La Grand Terrasse.

Later in the day this plaza is packed with people and vendors and street performers. Go to this link for another photo from 1900.

Expo 67

Habitat 67 A proposed design for modular apartments still in use today on a man made island in the St Lawrence River.

Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome from Expo 67

Place d'Armes

This is an old square across from Notre Dame.

Notre-Dame Basilica

Notre-Dame Basilica, My photos don't do it justice.

The pâtisserie

Toni makes the hard choices.

Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown