Today I've been taking advantage of the comfortably cool weather and walking all over the city. I started the day in Mile End, which was for many years a predominately Hasidic neighborhood. Today it's still known for having the best bagels in town, which was my main reason for going. I stopped off at St. Viateur Bagel, where a hot-from-the-oven "Montreal style" bagel costs fifty cents. Delicious! The neighborhood is also fantastic for people-watching: how many places on the West Coast can you see orthodox Jews in traditional garb driving Hummers while text-messaging?
Next, as promised, I walked back down to the Plateau du Mont Royal to relax with a beer and an order of poutine (french fries with gravy and cheese curds) at a tiny hole-in-the-wall called Patati-Patata. The poutine, not surprisingly, was decadent and wonderful, and thanks to the hearty dose of Pepto-Bismol I took beforehand, I'm feeling just fine.
Now I'm headed back to the hostel to plan out my last night in Montreal. The only neighborhood I've yet to visit is the Latin Quarter, so that might be my destination for dinner (though it will probably be quite a while before I'm ready to eat).
Tomorrow I catch the train to Quebec City. Assuming that the "free internet" there is as unreliable as it is here, it may take a while to find an internet connection, but I'll be in touch as soon as I can.
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It's great fun to read the adventures of someone who knows that foreign lands are not best seen from an hermetically sealed bubble, and who can write totally awesome descriptions that don't use the words "totally" or "awesome."
Think any of your eatdrink pals'll show up in the Northwest?
How'bout that poutine? Totalment awesome, eh?
You came closer than you know to having to meet the Amtrak from NYC last week? Film at eleven.
Cantwait for words from Quebec Cite'.
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