Don't remember where this was at, but the stripes look familiar...
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In Montreal's subway system, very efficient for the day's travels
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French translations of June 2007 movies
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Biodome (originally the Olympic Velodrome) with Olympic Stadium in the background
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Olympic Village
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View from the top
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Set up for youth soccer
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Seriously, these seats were considered tolerable in 1976?
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Flags of the USSR and East Germany still fly outside the stadium
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Traffic jam getting out of Montreal
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We stayed the night halfway between Montreal and Quebec in Trois-Rivieres
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Quebec's National Assembly
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Equivalent of the Zero Milestone
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The two lower statues are Wolfe and Montcalm, the opposing generals at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.
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Down into the Old City
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Technically, the British won the Battle of the Plains of Abraham and eventually kicked the French out of North America, yet
here we are 250 years later and they're still speaking French.
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"It looks like Europe," said everyone in the family who has been there (meaning not me).
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