Montreal in full sunshine

A Saturday morning.  A cloudless sky. Quite chilly (16C),  but the sun is promising a very warm day. The residents of Montreal, tourists, and all the others are out in the streets enjoying extremely warm weather. Here nobody remembers previous such a beautiful end of September. It’s hard to believ...

Montreal in the afternoon

After a some-hour-drive South-West from Quebec we arrived in Montreal – the second biggest city of Canada. Beautiful neighbourhoods of Montreal stretch along the southern slopes of Mount Royal which gave the name to the city. Vieux-Montréal – The Old City is located close by the river quais where ...

Ile d'Orleans

In the aafternoon we toured Ile d'Orleans on the River St. Lawrence- one of the major waterways of Canada and the world. It’s a big agricultural island, rich in fertile land and it supplies Quebec fruit and vegetables. We are approaching the largest waterfall in the Province of Quebec - Montmorenc...

Quebec City by night

After a long journey we had a little energy left to go to the city centre to enjoy the atmosphere of a Wednesday night. There are ongoing preparations for the local film festival. Quebec City is the cradle of the French part of the population in Canada, which in many respects resembles Paris. The ...

To Quebec City

From Ottawa we drove  to Quebec City - the capital of the Province of the same name, located on the St. Lawrence River. We covered 450 km in as many as 6 hours because the drive through Montreal during peak hours (on the highway intersecting the city) took 2 hours! For the first time we saw the va...

Ottawa's suburbs, family and Canadian First Nations

 Here is an excerpt lyrics from The Cabaret of the Old Men: Family, oh  family. Family doesn’t rejoice, when is. But when she is not You are alone as a dog. But it makes you extra happy when they are living abroad .... Especially somewhere in North America, right? My cousin Tadeusz with his wife ...

The Thousand Islands

From the town of Gananoque, Ontario, still in the province of Ontario, we are taking a  cruise ship on a tour of the land of the Thousand Islands. The Thousand Islands constitute an archipelago of 1,864 islands that straddles the Canada-U.S. border in the Saint Lawrence River as it emerges from the...

Ottawa - the Capital

Ottawa - the capital and fourth largest city in Canada; located in the eastern part of the province of Ontario, on the south bank of the Ottawa River. Here lives here around a million people. Why Ottawa is the capital of the country? On December 31, 1857, Queen Victoria chose this city for the new...
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