If you've never been, you should go. I've been here since Thursday. What a great city! Photographic possibilities abound. Great food, great vibe. I'm living in the wrong city!!
If you've never been, you should go. I've been here since Thursday. What a great city! Photographic possibilities abound. Great food, great vibe. I'm living in the wrong city!!
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Montreal is also one of the safest cities in the world.
Not for Maple Leaf Fans.. go leafs go.Originally Posted by Jody_S
"Montreal is also one of the safest cities in the world."... not if you were Pierre Laporte...
Montreal is indeed a very safe, colourful, vibrant city :-)
Andrew, looking forward to your pictures !!!
Pierre who will still very soon if only shortly visit one or maybe even the greatest destination of them all...
Pierre Leduc
Following link is just a recent sample, pending presentable Large Format production...
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Unless you have to deal with drivers....
Or try to use GPS on a rental car (if you can afford the Canadian rental car rates)
Re the GPS problem - there are some duplicate street names and addresses in the city and it's easy to wind up at the wrong one. As we pulled up in front of a warehouse instead of our hotel the damned thing announced that we had reached our destination. So we called the hotel and they stayed on the phone for 45 minutes and talked us to the right address. They said on occasion they have to go and drive a guest back because the guest is so stressed by winding up in a seedy commercial area late on a dark rainy night. Only place I've seen where GPS is more useless is Boston.
But it is indeed a great place with wonderful food and lots of history.
I was there last month with my daughter looking at universities; alas with only a 35mm. I developed that film this morning before I went to work, and will scan it tonight. I enjoyed Montreal, but hear it is cold in the winter...
I'm in Montreal now. The drivers do seem to be a bit impatient, even as far as waiting for pedestrians making permitted crossings... there are signs all over the Ville-Marie arrondissement (downtown) warning drivers and cyclists to watch out for each other.
Good town for photographing graffiti!
On the off chance that any other Forum folk from some other place might be visiting within the next few days, there's a Horst show at the McCord (Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, just across from the main quad at McGill), that runs through the end of this week. I skipped it, though - not a huge Horst fan myself.
While a cousin was showing us around the neighborhood where his dad grew up - east of Mont Royal - we stumbled across a hole-in-the-wall, old-style used camera store - cases overflowing with film cameras and lenses, mostly vintage '40s-'80s. Lots of 35mm, but also some medium and large format and movie equipment. It's called "Cinemonde", located at 113 Ave du Mont-Royal E, near the intersection with Saint-Urbain.
Andrew, glad you're enjoying the visit, but don't draw any conclusions as a tourist.
Best,
Michael
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