{"id":1356,"date":"2012-07-23T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T23:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2019-12-06T11:13:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:13:27","slug":"montreal-vacation-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/?p=1356","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Vacation – Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"

My plans are still messed up so today I did everything I had scheduled for Wednesday, which was exploring the Outremont and Mile End neighborhoods. To get to Outremont, I took the Orange Line in the direction of Montmorency to Jean-Talon Station. Then I took the Blue Line in the direction of Snowdon to Outremont Station. I found a newsstand in the metro where I bought a copy of the English language newspaper, The Montreal Gazette<\/a>. The cashier seemed particularly unwilling to speak any English. This outing required navigating around various residential areas so I spent a lot of time previewing the route on Google Street View.<\/p>\n

Before I set out for those neighborhoods, I visited La Brioche Lyonnaise again for breakfast. I had yogurt filled with fruit and granola and a cafe au lait<\/em>. That morning, I found a film crew setting up a location shoot at the Saint-Louis Square. I managed to sneak a few photos of that.<\/p>\n

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First I walked along Avenue Bernard even though I was not planning on visiting any of the establishments on that street. I walked past the Theatre Outremont so I crossed the street to take some photos of the theater. Eventually I managed to find St. Viateur Bagel<\/a> although I walked right past it at first. I bought a sesame bagel and walked to a nearby bench to eat it. Montreal is famous for its bagels so I fulfilled one of the essential tourist recommendations. I was planning on going into the nearby S.W. Welch Bookseller but a sign indicated they would not open until Noon and it was only 10:00 a.m. So I went and found Wilensky’s<\/a> where I ordered the famous Special<\/i>: a grilled salami and bologna sandwich with mustard on a kaiser roll, pressed flat from the grill. The restaurant was immortalized in Mordecai Richler’s novel, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz<\/i>. Scenes in the film version of the book were shot in the restaurant. I ordered a DVD of that movie when I got back to my hotel.<\/p>\n

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I wanted to wait around the area for S.W. Welch Bookseller to open since it was too much trouble to find the place. I wandered around several streets trying to find the Laurier metro station. It was very hot out and I was in the sun most of the time baking. Eventually S.W. Welch Bookseller opened and I bought two books; These Festive Nights<\/em> by Marie-Claire Blais and Paolo Paoli<\/em> by Arthur Adamov. Arthur Adamov is a French absurdist playwright whose work is extremely hard to find so I considered that quite a find. Fortunately, this was an English bookstore so I had no trouble communicating with the owner.<\/p>\n

After an endless search for the metro station in the hot sun I finally made my way back to the hotel. I was sweating so much that I was afraid of soiling my books with sweat.<\/p>\n

The film crew was still working at Saint-Louis Square. They seemed to be in the process of lighting a scene. I went to the d\u00e9panneur I found on Prince-Arthur Street and bought a can of soda to slake my thirst.<\/p>\n

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I had trouble finding something to do for the rest of the day so I went on a mission to find Theatre Saint Catherine<\/a> which I would need to locate tomorrow night. I walked down to Sainte Catherine Street but later found it would have been quicker to use the metro to go to the Berri-UQAM station. After finding the theater I walked further along Sainte Catherine Street until I reached Place des Arts. I took a lot of photos along the way. I found a La Belle Province fast food place where I had a hot dog and a coke.<\/p>\n

There were some thunderstorms in the evening so I stayed in my room all evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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