Montreal, Oui Oui

Ben and I had a great trip to Montreal this week.  I've always wanted to go and haven't heard one person say a bad thing about the city.  We spent our days bike riding and sight seeing and our evenings ditching passing rainstorms by checking out the local eats.

Recently, Boston activiated its bike sharing Hubway program.   Little did i know, this program was inspired by Montreal!  The city is extremely biker friendly with actual lanes for bikers:

I really enjoyed seeing the sights via bike!  I kept meaning to take a picture of one of us riding but... that didn't happen!

Old Port is beautiful to walk around and explore.  Andy recommended Notre-Dame Basillica and it was certainly worth the visit.

Another highlight was jazz at Upstairs (which is actually downstairs...)  We enjoyed a pitcher of drinks and french-style desserts.

  The band was a Cuban-style band that remixed pop songs as well as classics like Fur Elise:

On the way out I wanted to try a Montreal-style bagel at the famous Fairmount Bagel. They're skinnier than New York bagels but was certainly tasty.  I thought it would be more of a cafe but ended up being a bakery, filled to the brim with bagels as they were getting ready to send them out to delivery across the Province. 

It certainly was a Bon Voyage!

Check out the rest of my pictures from the trip here!!