This is a bit late: but here are a couple pictures my bike trip to Montreal back in May.
I had a week of holidays to use, and knew I wanted to go someplace overnight, but I wasn’t used to putting on lots of miles in one day. So I decided to pack some clothes in my tank and pillion bags, ride Highway 507 for fun, then point the bike in the general direction of Montreal and see how things went.
By stringing together highways 507/503/118/28/41/71/65/508/511/9/16/49 I managed to wiggle my way North and East through to Ottawa (ending up on a couple of gravel roads, and almost running out of gas outside Stittsville). By Ottawa I was ready for a rest… though I knew if I pushed on to Montreal I could likely stay with my friend Mark (who didn’t actually know I was coming). Montreal and Ottawa look surprisingly close together on a map… alas the reality was it was still quite a drive after already spending 6 hours in the saddle… but I made it.
Mark was a great host: letting me sleep at his place, and park my bike in the underground garage in his apartment building. During the day while he was at work I wandered around a bit with his camera. Here I am at Parc Mont-Royal looking East out over the downtown core:
The city was beautiful: much more “green” than Toronto, right from the park, through the University and residential quarters, right through to the business district:
…and downtown was full of people when I met Mark for lunch:
I even got to take a peek around Electronic Arts, where Mark works punishing hours to release all the cool new games you see coming out from EA, across a variety of platforms:
Finally, here’s a rather crappy pic from my cell phone: all suited up at Marks place, ready to roll out and head back to Toronto.
Special thanks to Mark who took care of me and fed me the best Asian food Montreal has to offer, on my first multi-day trip on a bike.