Train Trip Part IV - Montreal

There was a heat wave in Montreal - which I quickly realized was the first dose of real humidity I have ever felt. Temperatures were hovering around 37, felt like 42. C'mon. How do you guys out there deal with it?

We booked all our hotels through Hotwire and this was the one we were worried about the most. It seemed like it was more out of the way. But it turned out for the best - because it was closer to a cool local street (Boulevard Saint Laurent) that we ended up spending a lot of time exploring. 

We visited a world famous bagel shop. The guy running it was a bit snotty to Brad and he's lucky I was too busy taking shots of his bagels. If I had heard any of it I would have ripped him a new one after walking ten million blocks in 42 degree weather just to get to his shop.

Although the bagels were totally worth it.

We fluked out and visited another amazing restaurant and had the best mussels ever.

We also had a super memorable meal at a place called Confusion - best salmon I've ever had and the first time I tried dulce de leche which had been high on my radar - it didn't disappoint in the least. I could bathe in this stuff.

We also sought out a highly recommended poutine place - damn. I've had poutine out here a few times but it's never been anything worth ordering again. This though - this was epic. And cheap - something like $4.50 - you can't go wrong.

So lots of eating, shopping and hiding from the sun in Montreal. On the first day I actually almost barfed on the sidewalk, I think my body just didn't know how to deal with the heat. We found some shade and water and laid in a park for an hour and it was just the ticket.

We also had to do laundry at this point - yeah. What a joke. We washed some essential stuff in the hotel room and strung it up to dry, you know - cause within a few hours it'll be dry right? Two DAYS later it was still as wet as ever. Brad has to IRON his socks dry.

 After three nights here, we were off on the over night train to Halifax.