{"id":73,"date":"2007-07-07T10:28:40","date_gmt":"2007-07-07T17:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=73"},"modified":"2022-10-06T09:14:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T13:14:00","slug":"bienvenue-a-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/bienvenue-a-montreal\/","title":{"rendered":"Bienvenue \u00e0\u00a0 Montr\u00e9al"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a bit late: but here are a couple pictures my bike trip to Montreal back in May.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> for fun, then point the bike in the general direction of Montreal and see how things went.<\/p>\n

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<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n

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:<\/p>\n

\"Montreal<\/a>
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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:<\/p>\n

\"Parc<\/a> \"Trees<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Girl<\/a> \"Green\"<\/a>
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…and downtown was full of people when I met Mark for lunch:<\/p>\n

\"Busy<\/a> \"Busy<\/a>
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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:<\/p>\n

\"Electronic<\/a>
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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.<\/p>\n

\"Ready<\/a>
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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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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