Montreal; Friday, 23 August, 2019

Probably because I’d been so tired, I had a good night’s sleep and slept through until just after 8am Canadian time. Of course, that meant after I’d gotten showered and dressed, I was heading towards the end of breakfast by the time I made it down to the restaurant. I had a quick breakfast and then headed out into town. My first stop of the morning was just around the corner in Dorchester Square and the hop-on-hop-off bus tour of the city.

I did two full loops of the city, back to Dorchester Square to take in most of the key sights and then continued on a couple of stops into the Old Town of Montreal to find somewhere for a very late lunch before re-joining the tour to take it back to the hotel.

I had a bit of a freshen up in the hotel before taking the lift down from the hotel into the RÉSO, the underground city that joins much of central Montreal together so that in the winter months you don’t have to exit into the biting cold and snow of the city’s streets.

I spent some time wandering around, most of it lost, before finally emerging back above ground quite a long way away from where I’d entered the system. Thankfully it was also, as intended, close to many of the city’s restaurants so I was able to find somewhere to get dinner before descending back into the labyrinth and this time making it back to the hotel without getting too badly lost.

From the hotel I headed back to Dorchester Square to join the evening sightseeing tour, which operates hourly during the height of summer from 7pm until 10pm running on a different route from it’s daytime counterpart and taking in some of the more interesting vistas of the city, particularly at night.

I did the full tour, which lasted about an hour and three quarters, and by the time I got back to the hotel it was fast approaching 11pm so I headed back up to my room and turned in for the night.