Vieux Montreal

Yesterday was Québec’s National Holiday (French: Fête nationale du Québec), St. John the Baptist Day. I spent most of last night in Old Port (Vieux Port), where there was music playing, the Québec blue-and-white flag displayed everywhere, bars packed beyond their standard capacity, and most importantly, everyone having a great time outdoors. Three words: So much fun!

Our hotel was here. Great area to stay in and tour on foot!

Guess what…exactly!!

This is one of the most popular churches in montreal. It is also the church where Celine Dion got married

I had lived in Montreal for 5months. Montreal is composed in Quebec, it is called French Canada. The city reminds me of Europe, and you can experience a lot of exciting things at summer.

The Auberge Alternative in Old Montreal is incredible. Great setting, walking distance from the metro and the port. Beautiful!

This is a terrific city to visit. I suppose there’s plenty to do in Montreal, but the atmosphere is in Old Montreal. There’s a lot of restaurants, of course, but the best ones, in our opinion, were on Rue Saint-François-Xavier, near the Notre-Dame Basilica. (This includes the best Mexican restuarant we’ve ever been to, Casa de Mateo.) The worst restaurants (that we ate at, anyway) were on the popular Place Jacques Cartier. You pay for the quality of the view, maybe, but not the food.

Our daughter was two and a half when we went, and it was a good place for kids—an IMAX theater showed 3D movies about bugs and lions. There was a really neat bike route that we didn’t explore until our last day, unfortunately. Maddie liked that a lot. Public transportation was good, and it was easy to get to places like the Parc Olympique, where there was a lot for kids to see and do.

We stayed at the Bonaparte, which served the best breakfast I’ve ever had. We ate there every morning.