Thursday, July 2, 2009

Montreal and Quebec City

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Montreal has great sites, tall skyscrapers and a great Olympic village. It has everything from 18th Century resturants to the Tallest leaning tower. Quebec City has the sugar shack ,old buildings and great 400 year old architecture. The Chateau Frotnac is one of the many unique archiectureal achievements.

Montreal has great sights on the top of the tallest leaning tower. You could see the entire city of Montreal on the top.Did you know that Montreal is on an island? To get to Montreal, you must come into the city through bridges and tunnels. When I arrived by Amtrack ,I went through a dark Tunnel. One of the bridges is the Pierre Lapont Bridge. This bridge is the longest spanning bridge in Canada.

Travelling by Amtrack is great but the travel time is 11 hours. Eleven hours on a extremely chilly train with uncomfortable seats is torture.The only good aspect of Amtrack is that they have a snack cart. On the snack cart, you can play cards, board games and eat snacks purchased from the snack cart.
Montreal has several man made islands because they were for the World Expo. Different countries needed space to exhibit their technology and progress. So they built man made islands just for the purpose of display and exhibit during the expo. On another island is an amusement park with exhilerating rollar coasters and rides.
Did you know that in Chinatown at Montreal, there is a building where the fortune cookies were first invented and manufactured? It's true the fortune cookies were first made in Montreal and they ship the fortune cookies to New York and all over the world. Then on the opposite side of the building where the fortune cookie was first made, is a sign with chinese characters. I travelled to Montreal at the right time to watch the people set up for the Jazz Festival.Every year Montreal has a Jazz festival celebrating jazz, musicans all around the world come to play their Jazz music. People can watch and listen with free admissions. Cirque du soleil will be there and the Circus under the Sun will perform their world famous talented circus acts. They have special decorations at the festivals just for the Cirque du soleil. The lights are decorated to represent the sun.
After you have taken the tour of Montreal with a tour guide, you can go at night and listens to ghosts. These ghosts haunt the city of Montreal with stories of their past. They have been rumored to be scary beyond belief. They tell their story wth blood hanging from the side of their face and rags as the remainder of their clothes. They are just actors that try to tell a story about their past and what they did for Montreal in the 17th , 18th and 19th centuries. There is the founder of Montreal's ghost screaming and looking up all the time. He discovered montreal and thought he brought back diamonds back to Europe, but they were quartz. They were worthless, so he had to deliever the bad news to widows about their husbands being killed by a disease in the new world. The founder and the person who discovered Quebec was furious that his crew died of disease and that he brought back worthless quartz.
As I drive 3 hours north to Quebec City, the capital of Quebec Provinence, I saw the many acres of arable farmland on the drive to Quebec City. They had tons of farm land with many good crops.

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