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Well since it's here I guess I'll go ahead and review Old Montreal while the whole experience is still fresh in my little dinosaur sized pebble brain...
After driving for over 10 hours from the DC area to Montreal, visiting Old Montreal feels like my car magically sprouted wings and crossed the Atlantic at some supersonic speed. I could rub my eyes and pinch myself, but my senses and aforementioned little brain would still tell me, "Hey fatty, you're in some European town...check out the history! The sites! The smell of the food and the little outdoor cafes!"
To which I'd reply to my brain, "Hey, shut up you! I'll teach you to think on your own...here, have a tasty cerveza!"
"Cerveza! Yes! YES! YES!! Give me more fat boy! Umm ummm umm...*"
And then the voices in my head would slowly quell until they altogether ceased. And me sitting there with an impish smile and trace signs of drool pooling at the edge of a grin...as North America fades away into the background of common sense and I give into the notion that I am indeed in Europe.
Old Montreal is a mix of the old, the new and the very "Oui Oui". Walk for 5 minutes and you're bound to leave the old cobble stone streets to a newer more modern area as if to encase the historical pedigree of Montreal with a wall of high rise buildings and corporate letters. Walk another five minutes and you'll pass through the Chinatown arch with colorful reminders of yet another culture that is part of the Montreal melting pot.
There is so much to see, so much to do and so so much to eat. I just wish that I had a little more time in this city to enjoy a tasty brew at an outdoor table or to slowly sip a small cup of espresso as the citizens and tourists danced the dance of pedestrian life flowing between here, there and who knows where...
That my friends, is what Montreal means to me. :-)
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