Montreal; Sunday, 25 August, 2019

I had a bit more of an interrupted nights sleep, waking several times in the middle of the night, and consequently ended up sleeping in longer than I had intended to. It meat that by the time I got down to breakfast they were trying to hurry people through so that they could get set up for Brunch a little later.

After breakfast I headed over to the Metro and caught it back over to St Helens Island and went for a wander around where I’d been the previous evening, I then headed inland to the Fort that had been built on the island to protect Montreal from invasion by the United States. Today it houses the Stewart Museum which tells the history of Montreal from the original First Nations tribes through to the arrival of the French and then the English take-over of Canada. There’s also a small part on the role the city played in the American war of independence.

From the museum I wandered over to the other side of the island to the Biosphere. This was built for the 1967 Worlds Fair, and at the time housed the American pavilion. It was designed by the man behind the Epcot centre in Florida and looks very similar with the metal dome covering the whole site. Today the museum inside is dedicated to the environment and doesn’t pull it’s punches about the damage that’s being done to both the Canadian environment and weather as well as the global environment by climate change.

After looking round the museum I headed back into the centre of Montreal for a very late lunch and then went for a bit of a wander through the Old Town before heading back to the hotel to freshen up.

A little later I headed back over to the Old Town to grab some dinner in one of the restaurants on the main square before returning back to my hotel and attempting to get a better nights sleep.