Finally.. Our deserved tour of the wonderful Canada

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TRAVEL IN Canada

Anther AND MARY

From 2 to September 29, 2005

Why Canada: Since children have fantasized about this distant continent (North America) where the prairies, the mountains, the woods are great, how immense his territory with many, many lakes, which together with the parks are a joy the traveler.

Plan your trip.

Mary is retired with the month of May 2005 and Antero July 1, 2005, immediately we decided that it was time to realize our desire as we had time to spend in travel and money enough. We started to find the necessary material to arrange a long stay in Canada and evaluated the various offerings of the tours offered by travel agents. We sailed in all the websites that show the towns and places of Canada and decided to visit Quebec and the Ontario into account that these two states are each 5 times bigger than Italy. Having established the place to visit lots of other details remained to be improved, such as: Direct flight to Montreal or Toronto flight with a stopover in Paris organized trip or leisure, travel and personal insurance for health care, language, documents and payment systems ; Miscellaneous equipment, clothing, after carefully evaluating the agency offers an organized trip, including return flight, half board and some guided tours by bus with a minimum charge of EUR 2,600 to head
for 12 days and 4,500 for 23 days, we decided to take the plunge yourself, preparing the route well, the language and everything else needed to complete our great adventure that would have committed for the entire month of September . Program: Start tour of Canada from Montreal city tour of the Regions of Quebec with its main routes: road of the Appalachians, of Navigation Road, Whale Route, the road of the fjord, and the border with Ontario the way the explorers. Then visit the Great Lakes region of Ontario from Niagara Falls situated on the border with the United States. Go up the St. Lawrence River, in the street of the great historic sites full of memories of the battles between the French-British and Anglo-Americans. Route: Montreal Riviere-du-Loup Drummondville-Miguasha-Percé-Gaspé-Matane-Baie-Comeau ferry St.Jean-Lake-St Catherine-Beaupre-Quebec-Mont-Tremblant Ottawa-Pembroke-Maynnhoot Alguonquin-parc-Huntsville Parry-Saund-Midland-Waterloo-Niagara Falls-Toronto-Kingston-Montreal. For a total of 6,500 km.

The adventure begins.
Friday, September 2 starting at 9 with a nine-hour flight and fly to rome-Montreal Montreal at 12 pm the same day (6 hour time back). We left home at 3.15 at night to arrive at Heathrow on time, accompanied by brown bear (child) that is provided for the occasion. at 5.45 we were at the airport, booking fast place and waiting for departure, which occurred at 9.25. The air, thick and short was not a good aesthetic and inside we were tight as sardines with rows of three seats to the left, three in the middle and three on the right for a total of 267 passengers and that made us say, but where the planes are beautiful, large, comfortable, with armchairs as those that make us see on TV? to tell the truth, the journey took place without major problems, Mary has always dozed often while eating and ran a TV movie after another. a nice thing was that every hour that the commander did see where we were, how high and how fast they move across the sky, so we can follow live the path of the aircraft and the trip was left to be done. 12 am catching up to departure we arrived in Montreal, the landing was greeted by all passengers with a long applause from the crew that entertained us very much for all the nine hour drive. landing and pick up the luggage was easy because the airport in Montreal, recently renovated, is welcoming and easy to follow with signs everywhere, bars, supermarkets and duty free and with very, very personal, always friendly and polite in relation to travelers.

we're out of the airport at 12.30 and see what the weather is nice, the taxi arrives immediately and now with an imperfect French ask the taxi driver to take us to clayron hotel located in downtown Montreal to the number of 1202 Boulevard de Maisonneuve. Montreal city center is 24 km from the airport and the route we have done in no time. the driver of the huge highways intersect, fold, is elevated, intersect, that disappear underground, with all six lanes in each direction, like a formula one racer, the 13 were already in hotel and, after leaving ns. credit card, we reached our room, large and airy, with views of Mont Royal, with a bathroom, living room, TV and kitchenette with microwave, refrigerator, microwave and coffee maker, in short, everything you need for cooking in the room. ( so are also all the motel where we stayed). time to pack up and leave on for a brief visit to Montreal, taking the subway and the stations whose revenue is not as beautiful as those in Moscow, however, are functional, concise and very point. fatigue has taken over as soon as they were 17.30 (23.30 in Italy) and the time zone difference made itself felt, and took a pizza-we do not know what seasoning but it was very tasty, a beer and a long, long American coffee we went back to the hotel where we slept deeply enough to let us recover.

Saturday, September 3
This morning we visit Montreal with its skyscrapers and Old Montreal where the first French founded New France, the weather is beautiful and brings a breeze freschino. do a quick breakfast in a croassanteria and walk away to the heart of the city. we cross the great streets of Montreal full of elegant shops and huge and it soon becomes clear that it is the capital of commerce canadese.le major streets and highways that run through Montreal on the sides and under the skyscrapers of glass, every time you see a case for , two-story built in European style bistro in almost all engaged and surrounded by pleasant streets that sometimes seem abandoned, other American-style homes have all the external stairs and brick and homeless, all this from one skyscraper to another. we arrive at the cathedral dedicated to the Montreal mayor reine du monde.