Thursday, April 5, 2007

Bonjour Montrèal!

We've spent 3 days in Montreal, depite the somewhat dismal weather (I think it has been below 10 degrees the whole time). We are staying with the coolest family (two brothers and a sister) from Benin (the west coast of Africa for the non-geographically minded).

They've cooked us meals, given us wine, spoilt us and got us thoroughly addicted to 24 (the programme). We stayed up until 2am this morning watching the last 4 episodes of the series.

As for Montreal itself, it is a pity we did't practise our French before we came! Pretty much everyone is bilingual but the signs aren't of course...

We have been to the 'underground city', Mont Royal (we saw a fox in the wild!) and the biodome(where we saw the World's largest rodent - see left).

We've also become extremely proficient at catching buses and the underground. Luckily it's all very efficient so there's not too much trauma involved.

1 comment:

Sylvia's mum said...

Hello Sylvia, I hope you're able to put to use such handy phrases as those I taught you when you were small eg "Beaucoup de chocolat pour moi, s'il vous plait!"

How did the African connection come about?