I ♥ Montreal

Montreal

I've been in Montreal for a while, so no updates. I'll let the pictures do most of the talking, but it was incredible, Blink 182 were incredible and I cannot wait to go back there.

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Day Eleven - High Park/The Closest Shave

On the way to High Park we stopped in another bookstore, so I ended up buying more books. Some prose by Wilde and a book of Charles Bukowski's poems, I was pretty pleased with these. High Park is the most beautiful place, full of greenery and lakes and birds and animals, it's so nice. I don't even need to say anything about it, the pictures are below.

After walking like 4 miles today we were shattered so chilled out in the evening. I was gonna get my head shaved a bit, but when Si did it he accidentally made a bald strip, not happy!

High Park (and some other pictures.)

Day Ten - A Walk In The City

Today me and Si decided to go and walk down to a bookshop we'd seen not too far from the apartment but when we got there it was closed, so we decided to hop on the TTC down to Bathurst and Bloor and go downtown and look in all the bookshops there. The sun was ultra warm today, it was a perfect day, real shorts and t-shirt weather. We spent a lot of time in 3 really big bookshops and I ended up spending too much money on books as I often tend to do (bad move - especially as it's bound to distract me from reading the books I actually have to for college.) I ended up purchasing:

The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson (for Phil, he'd stated he wanted to read it so I got it for him. Plus it's a great book with good memories for me.)
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
Queer by William S. Burroughs
Heavy Weather by P.G Wodehouse
Mere Anarchy by Woody Allen
The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell

I'm pretty happy with my purchases to be honest, and tomorrow before we go to High Park we are going to the bookshop that was closed, so I might well end up buying even more books (no need for the 'might', I will end up doing this.) Me and Si walked for about 6 hours in the end, it was nice to be out and about on such a great day, and finally we stopped for some food and a couple of pints at a place called 'The Friar and Firkin' near where Phil and Si's first hostel had been. Food was good, beer was good, and it was a well-earned rest!

We got back in the apartment about 9pm and relaxed our aching joints and then me and Phil and Tay went out to check out a couple of bars again. The first one was called 'The Delray Grill' and was the closest bar to the apartment. It was depressing and empty and felt really awkward in there, so we left pretty quickly and then went to a place called 'Axis' which was really nice. We chilled there until kicking out time and then wandered back to the apartment about 2am. Then we watched some weird French-Canadian film based in Montreal until about 4.30am, it was so goddamn strange, but I can't wait to get to Montreal! Going to read and relax in High Park tomorrow and that will also be great. I'm too tired, goodnight!

Day Nine - Family Guy on Repeat/Arsenal/Bar

Today me and Si got up really early after like two hours sleep so that we could watch the Arsenal game on my Mac. We won 2-1, and by the time it had finished we were both pretty much awake so we didn't go back to bed. We chilled out all day, watching the same two Family Guy episodes about 4 times on the television. Phil got better and went out for a bit, and I tried to read more Wide Sargasso Sea, but literally fell asleep on the carpet after about 4 pages and woke up with a carpet burned face. We heard that L.A Galaxy were playing Barcelona at about 11pm our time, so we went down to a bar that Phil and Si had been to before. We went with Tay and had a few beers, unfortunately they couldn't find the football though, so we were stuck watching Toronto F.C vs New England Patriots on one television and West Ham vs Beijing on another. It was a good night though, felt a wee bit drunk on the way home though. We found loads of books on the walk home which was super awesome, although I don't know what happened to them. We also found a printer that some guy was throwing out, but I think Phil got tired of carrying it so we didn't manage to get it all the way back to the apartment to see if it would work or not. Got back in about 3am and me and Phil watched CKY2K and all in all it was a good day, although by the end of it I am shattered.

Day Eight - Swine Flu

Today we didn't do a great deal at all, Phil was feeling really ill so we mainly stayed in and did nothing much. Phil was so ill though, he kept shivering and looking like death, really hope he gets better tomorrow.