Montreal in a day

So much for rest on our off day.  There is just too much to see and do in Montreal. 

        

  Our day began with a breakfast visit to the Fairmount Bagel Factory, for Montreal wood-fired bagels.

 

           

 

      We hopped on our bikes to visit Habitat, built as futuristic housing for the Montreal Expo in 1967 and continuously occupied since then.  

        

                                  

            We also saw the Biosphere, again part of Expo and now an environmental museum.

                                   

      Lunch was at the Maison des Cyclistes, home of the organization which set up most of the bike routes we have been riding.  It felt a bit like a pilgrimage to go there.

                       

       We didn't have time to do justice to the Botanical Gardens, but we loved what we saw.

                                      

     Victory!!  We returned to our hotel by way of the Olympic Stadium, site of the 1976 Olympics.

And a fine day concluded with dinner with an old friend and his new wife who drove up from Ottowa to meet me.  I was on my best behavior and didn't take photos of a wonderful dinner at a contemporary French restaurant.