Day 67 Thurs-Buses-Boats-Feet

A productive morning..…but first up we headed to headed to a Diner to have breakfast…. My glory was there too big of a choice so much to choose from we had trouble making a decision! And of course every time you order there’s always choices about how you have your eggs, what you have on the side,what type of sauce do you want, do you want extras with that the list goes on and on. I actually ordered a crepe this morning something different…

After brekkie came back to the room downloaded all my pics, and then we set off on foot towards the Hop on Hop off bus. We only did a couple of stops with this and then got off again and set off on foot once more to go looking to see what else we can find in the area, because we thought we hadn’t seen around here…But turns out it was where we had been after all….we found a place for a cuppa….While there we decided to check out cruise prices for a cruise on the St Lawrence River @ $37.50 ea we thought it worth it for 1 1/2 hrs….we planned to do the 1230 pm cruise because it’s going to rain this afternoon, a very big storm apparently….

Once we paid for it online we set off on foot again this time going through Chinatown from here we weaved our way down to the wharf. Arriving just in time to board the very smart looking boat…it has most of it closed in with glass everywhere to see the sights… not sure why they sights were actually pretty bad…mainly an unloading dock, loaded with huge amount if shopping containers, plus x 2 massive lots of Grain Silos…very unattractive looking area…

It would have been such a relaxing time, but the kids on this cruise were extremely unruly and noisy,..and the noise just got louder and louder…so not a peaceful relaxing cruise as we had hoped…. Once back we were more than happy to get off and would not really recommend this particular cruise as nit really anything to see…..

From here we headed into the Old City to find a restaurant for lunch..we did find one a very very old Spaghetti House…it seems it Charles Dickens actually lodged here at the back rooms of the restaurant in May of 1842 and wrote his notes for the Tales of Two Cities….
It had another story in the menu about the Sun Life Building at the time was the tallest building in the British Empire…..for a time the roof of the building was used to anchor Zeppelins…. Plus in the basement we’re a huge amount of vaults used to store Gold and Crown Jewels…..during the 2nd World War….very interesting reading before what had been another amazing tasty meal…another Beef and Pork rissole in Tomato base…Mushroom Risotto and salad bar…the flavours were absolutely Devine….Montreal has actually been the best place on the whole trip for food….we haven’t had a bad meal yet….

After lunch we headed out o lay to have the heavens open wide on us….We made our way back to the pick up point for the Red Hop On Hop Off Bus…fortunately we had our red Niagara Rain coat things still…it become very windy and nasty…we made the bus very wet…then after having to get off it at our stop point the heavens got even more angry….we weee drenched everywhere the little rain coat things weren’t…back to dry out and rest…we have done as much of Montreal that we want to…

We headed to bed around 10pm at we didn’t know what hour we kept getting knocks on the door! It had woken us from a deep sleep 🥵 and scared the crap out of us! I kept yelling go away! It went on for a 3 mins on and off! John went to the door and I thought he was going to open it and panicked! Thank goodness he just looked through the peep 👀 hole 🕳! They had finally gone, but it left us rattled and every noise from then on woke me from my very light sleep! What a pain! I would say they got the wrong room but still scared me very much! What an end to our Montreal time 😫!Read more