Here’s the first release of my Time Lapse Project! The video shows scenes from the Gastein Valley, Linz, the Bohemian Forest, Toronto and Milan. Enjoy!
Category Archives: Canada
Meeting Clément
On Tuesday evening, my last evening in Montréal, Maria and I had dinner with Clément, who is a former JKU Exchange Student. It was exciting to see him again and catch up!
More of Montréal!
My last day in Montréal was a lot of walking around. I started at Rue St-Denis, walked along Avenue Du Mont-Royal up to the observation platform in park Mont-Royal. After enjoying the skyline, I coninued walking to Université de Montréal where Maria and I had a short lunch break.
From there, I took the metro back downtown where I tried to see a few more sight, the Notre Dame Basilica in particular. Unfortunately, it was already closed. Finally I ended up at Juliette Et Chocolate and enjoyed a great brownie with a hot chocolate, grandmother style.
Montréal at Night
Back to Montréal & Canadian Thanksgiving
We spent a kind of lazy day today! After the long ride back to Montréal, we were sleeping almost until noon. So, we went for brunch to L’Avenue, a very nice restaurant.
Right after brunch we took an afternoon nap 🙂 . And then coffee and cake at Premiere Moisson at Av du Mont-Royal corner Rue Saint-André, exactly the right place to linger around all afternoon long! We stayed there for almost three hours.
Toronto – The Tour
Today, on Sunday, we were explored Toronto. We were walking all the time – no public transportation. We startet at Queen St W after breakfast at Second Cup. At the Campbell House we turned into University Ave. We walked along University Ave till the Ontario Legislature. After Passing the park behing Ontario Legislature we took a break at Victoria University. Now, we strolled down Yonge St to the Toronto Eaton Centre – with a short break at Starbucks. We did some shopping at the Eaton Centre.
After having lunch there we headed directly to the CN Tower. The CN Tower took us about 2.5 hours. The elevators are fast but you have to queue a lot. Especially the elevator to the Sky Pod is a bottleneck. But it was worth it! We had an amazing view from the observation decks!
Back on the ground floor we just went back to our hostel where we parked our car for the day. Then we returned home to Montréal. We left Toronto around 7.30pm and arrived in Montréal at about 3am.
Toronto
We just came back from a quick trip out to Toronto Island where we enjoyed the amazing skyline! Despite the cold.
Niagara Falls
Today we spent pretty much the entire day at Niagara Falls. We left Toronto around 8.30am and arrived after a short and easy drive at Niagara Falls at 10.00am. Early enough. We took a lot of awesome pictures! Of course we participated–as well as every other tourist–in the major attraction: the Maid of the Mist tour. Afterwards we enjoyed dinner at the Hard Rock Café. A first for me! You know me: I had to close this day with an Americano from Starbucks.
Cruising Through Canada
Look at this wonderful picture I took on our way from Montréal to Toronto on highway 401.
We started our tour quite late at about 11.30am and arrived after a few stops at around 8.00pm in Toronto. Just in time for a nice dinner in Chinatown next to our hostel. Here are a few impressions from our road trip.
Arrived In Montréal
This afternoon I arrived in Montréal. Maria picked me up at the métro station Berri-Uqam, the final stop of the L’Aérobus. She spoiled me with home made Gulasch for lunch! We took the bus to the university where I got a short campus tour–including the Thursday evening beer 4@7.
In the evening we walked down Rue St-Denis to Rue Ste-Catherine E. We were just strolling around downtown and enjoyed the city. Here are the pics.