Day 65 Tues-Long Haul-Gay Central!

Up and in the road just before 7 am which where we are now was 6 am…Only 3 stops Breakfast at Tim’s, MTea at from a Servo…actually really good coffee shock of shocks…and lunch in the Main Street of what feels like and looks like Gay and Homeless Central…

It was a long haul, fairly boring 7.5 hrs of driving…did see a huge bus factory….some funny sights on the Hwy…a huge motorhome towing a caravan…that was weird….A kangaroo Trucking company in Québec🤔….. a massive Egg, Funny characters… A big car towing a weeny trailer…..
2 dead Racoons, 1 dead skunk, 2 dead porcupines…and 1 live squirrel 🐿 is the count of animals for today…still no bears or mooses

Then we arrived in Montreal for the next 3 nights….we found our way to our hotel in the main part of the city…they didn’t have our room ready…. But we could park our car in @ $25 which equates $28 a night… anyway one less thing we had to think of and it’s off the street…only a few more days before it goes back so we can’t risk any mishaps with her…

So we set off to find a spot for lunch which by our last time would be 3.30, but 2.30 here…by the time we actually got our lunch it would have been 4pm but 3pmish here…and what a spot we picked honestly the sheer amount of Homeless in the street were unreal…all with their cups out and a fag in their mouths..,As we are sitting there it became evident that this was a high Gay area and once we finished lunch…we could see Gay Bars surrounding us…Gay shows and Heaps of skimpy Gay cloths stores… this by the way is not the Gay Village that’s advertised as another area…but Downtown Montreal… I’ll be honest I am not impressed with Montreal…Like the first time we went to Paris… bags of rubbish lining the streets and rubbish everywhere along footpaths…it feels dirty and looks dirty..…the only highlight was as we walk through one of the main streets there were these huge Cameras and Lights setup which we quickly realised was a movie being made,… then after lunch as we walked around we saw heaps and heaps of Movie set Vans and Change rooms etc set up,.,in fact whole Car lots were taken up with the movie set vans all named with what they were…. like …..change rooms.., Wardrobe….peoples names, as well as main star in very large print on one van… so interesting have no idea what movie is being made… but this is a huge production you can tell by the sheer amount of equipment around the area up the streets, in Car lots and down streets…
Found 4 actual massive church’s….one completely abandoned….over green with weeds out it’s front…😢😢😢 would loved to have seen I sure it…plus another close by and 2 massive ines earlier when looking for lunch…I didn’t get to see inside any if these….on,y one open and we were on a mission at that stage needing sustenance…but I am guessing the others aren’t open due to the sheer amount if homeless around…mind you they could turn the abandoned one into a night shelter for them….

We come back to the motel at 4pm like we were told to find around 50-60 people all either sitting around or in a line up to get a room…. It was absolute chaos…. We actually stood in the line for 55 mins before arriving at the desk.., with one person trying to look after all these people…People coming back complaining wrong types of rooms, no aircon, I ordered 2 rooms where is the other…we are standing in line thinking this isn’t good…so I started to look up other accommodation just in case…there was a whole bus load of tourists sitting waiting for their rooms to be ready cleaned…they really looked impressed…

Ours turned out to be in a rabbit Warren of up stairs down stairs dawn long hallways,.but once here it really was ok… had requested a high floor and that didn’t happen,..but it’s comfortable… air-cons working…beds are comfy…fridge freeze very tiny…but we are in our last 3 days and I have cut all the food down to bare minimum…won’t need much to get back to Tim’s…

We are thinking of doing a hop on hop off tour here…but so far sights aren’t enticing so we shall see…

We had a bit if down time…John had a big sleep again…then we headed out around 7.30 for dinner….as we were just past the motel area in a big car lot all the homeless were being feed…said to John we could just line up behind them 😁….on we went…thought we would go a different way through the shopping centre we found this arvo very close to us….we tried a door a few times seeing it was locked..next thing we had a dark policeman talking to us in French…I looked totally confused and then says sorry I didn’t speak French…I think he thought we must have had our car locked in the car parking area underground…he then told us it’s closed at 7pm…I thought to start with we were in trouble and we could have been if he really though we were trying to break in…I fessed our say we are trying to find the supermarket…which I think we meant car lot and said again it’s closed at 7 pm…so not wanting to get into trouble off we headed..

We found a love,y pizza place I read about in our room info…it had very light pastry so didn’t upset our tummy’s as badly as many do…Very tasty a but spicy 🥵 but tolerable….

We weaved our way back to the $Dollar store that’s not a $dollar anymore…to get some water…the sights tonight are full in…people everywhere…we didn’t stay around the streets just needed some rest and relaxation so back to our room…when we passed through the main desk it was a bit quieter compared to even when we headed to dinner people were still checking in…what a nightmare….Read more