Katrin & Jojo

September 24, 2008

Well, Katrin was right. After the bad impression I got yesterday, waking up today was much nicer. We had very good breakfast with toast, waffles, mini-croissants, bananas, juice, eggs and actual coffee (not the brown-coffee-flavored water you get in the US). Strengthened by this we went to the old port, the Vieux Port, of town. It is really nice and is in no way lagging behind what Quebec has to offer. We strolled around somewhat (the city was just waking up with some stores not yet open) and went back and forth quite a lot (at least we saw everything). Chinatown was on our route to Mont Royal so we had a look at that as well. As indicated we didn’t miss the view from Mont Royal (see the photos) which is a must-see, but also something you should be in shape for (we already had done most of this day’s walking before we went up which was pretty hard). After the really impressing view (and a lot of photo-taking, re-hydrating and watching squirrels) we returned to our hotel. While this article is short, our day was not and we walked for about 8 hours straight (my feet can tell you a story). Seeing how we managed to do as much distance as this we just decided that we would not take the car to the Olympic Park tomorrow (6km) as parking there costs too, but instead walk there (and back). Now, enjoy the photos ;)