Most people come home on a Friday afternoon wondering what to do. The nice thing about living in a village is that you can just walk and decide along the way. After a drink at the Gilded Otter and dinner at a Tavola we ran into the G String Orchestra playing on a corner in town.
Living so close to Montreal, I should really get there more often. Nicole’s sister working in the Adirondacks for the summer gave us a good excuse to do just that. After a drive into the heart of the Adirondacks, a boat ride across Cranberry Lake and a border crossing, we were finally in Canada.
Montreal is a cool city with an interesting bit of international flair (police cars looking the same and not making different noises make you feel like you’re still in the US). Signs and menus being in French and English make it one of the best places that you could learn a foreign language. We found a cheap room in the heart of downtown — very near to the Latin Quarter and Old Montreal. You couldn’t have asked for a better location. Fun things we did — the Biodome, the Latin Quarter, Old Montreal, jet boat ride (where we got soaked through) on the St. Lawrence, Jean-Talon market and Notre Dame. As always, plenty of eating (poutine!) and drinking as well.
At Cranberry Lake
At the Biodome
Jean-Talon Market
Notre Dame
Old Montreal
Around the corner from our hotel
On the way home — dusk in the Adirondacks
With nothing to do on a superb 4th of July day, we decided to check out Olana, the home of Frederic Edwin Church, one of the major painters of the Hudson River School. This dovetailed nicely with an afternoon spent roaming the streets of Hudson. Some shots from Olana…
Looking south down the Hudson with the Catskills to the right
