We decided to take the City bike routes and see some areas of Montreal: Mount Royal, La Maison des Cyclistes, the Olympic village and Botanical Gardens.
Riding in Montreal is either really bad or good, in most of the streets are good where there are designated bike lanes. From Pat's house we took the North-South bike way and it took us where we wanted to go without trouble. It is like a highway for bikes, with people of all ages going in both directions, some are commuting, others look like training and others are going for a stroll with the family. It was like driving in Argentina in a two line highways, you needed to strategically pass people when there was an opening in the oposite lane.
Mount Royal is the small mountain in the island of Montreal with easy access by car, foot or bicycle. The road in not paved but well kept and with a nice slope so it was not hard to pedal to the top. The views of the city are great as you can see in one of the pictures. We tried to get to a "cross" structure at the top and I got separated with Steve. It took about an hour to find each other again, it is hard to be without cellphones, we are spoiled with the ability to use them all the time.
After we found each other we went for lunch at the Maison des Cyclistes: a nice cafe with a bicycle shop and all the maps you might need to tour the route verte.
We also rode around the remaing structures of the Olympic village and then went to the Botanical gardens which are amazing. We took many pictures of plants and flowers (you can see one on this blog). In the way back to Pat's house we stopped a the "Jean-Talon" market to get maple syrup and we also got some cheese and bread for dinner.
We had a nice dinner with Pat and family and we called it the day to get up early in the morning to go from Montreal all the way to Vermont.
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