After our 6-hour-short stop in Amsterdam, we finally arrived in Canada on Sunday evening. For us, this was a completely new country, even though we had heard many great things about it in the past. Not to mention all the dramatic ice hockey games between especially Sweden and Canada in […]
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Already during our first evening in Montréal, our Airbnb host Olivier mentioned the Lachine Canal. At that time he suggested us to rent bikes and ride along the canal. We did, however, never rent any bikes in Montréal. But we did find our way to the beginning of the Lachine […]
Sometimes it is nice to get out of the big cities. Smaller towns and villages usually have more charm and tell you a lot more about the country that you are visiting. During our first trip to Canada, we didn’t get too far outside of Montréal. The places we did […]
Mount Royal rises right on the edge of Downtown Montréal. It is this mountain, or hill depending on how you look at it, that has given the city of Montréal its name. The mountain, with its peak at 233 meters above sea level, could almost be considered the central park […]
Montréal might be famous for many things, but one seems to be stand out above the rest – ice-hockey. The Montreal Canadiens are one of the original six in the National Hockey League together with the teams from Boston, Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Toronto. Since the end of the […]