Freshest fruits with the best beers

Trip Start Nov 24, 2008

Trip End Nov 30, 2008

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Le Sous-bois Montreal

Flag of Canada Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Friday, November 28, 2008

Woke up pretty early again and walked around Old Montreal. It's very old fashioned European style area. Cobblestone narrow roads, many caf�'s, and you just get a good vibe in that area. I noticed the area was filled with touristy shops as well all trying to represent the Canadian feeling. We went to this desert place that sold everything maple syrup. They had all kinds of flavors that I had no idea existed. I decided to try out the Apple Pie Maple Syrup desert. Heavenly good. We buy a few things and were on our way. After walking around town a bit more, we head out to Little Italy. They had this HUGE Farmers Market with the freshest fruit I have ever seen. Many shops were giving examples and I'd have to say their Kiwi's and Tomatoes were out of this world. It just gave this juicy and sweet feeling in your mouth. I wish I could take some home with me. Next was this Italian supermarket. When I walked in there, I really thought I was in Italy. The entire place had everything you could imagine from Italy. Panettone's(Italian bread) were everywhere. Ok so I walk out and I'm suddenly back in Canada (or France because I'm in Montreal? Oh god I'm getting confused what country I'm in). Next was this famous Italian caf�. Again- I was in Italy. Think of the clich� Italian mafia looking guys talking in a caf� table. Ok well that's basically what it was throughout the entire caf�. It didn't seem very touristy and more of the locals went there which was great. Across the street was this AWESOME soccer store devoted entirely to soccer. Everything from jerseys, shoes, pants, balls, key-chains, scarfs, flags, whatever. Pretty pricey place so I walked out empty handed unfortunately. $100 jersey? No thanks. And for dinner, we got pizza at yet another Italian place. So far today was in Italy.

Night time now. Walked around The Village. The area is very "open-minded" if you know what I mean. Fun to walk around and many bars to hang out in. We stumble upon this bar that I remembered our LP book mentioned. Name of the place is Kilo and I can't recommend it enough. Food was great and they had an amazing deal on beer. Just so happens our server at the bar was going to NYC this coming weekend. We talked for awhile and gave him advice on what to do in NYC. He also gave us some inside tips on what to do in Montreal. I looked around the room and quickly realized that there was maybe two straight couples in the whole place. Teresa and I laughed about it as we didn't notice and I remembered that we were in The Village so this is pretty common here.

So were back at our hostel now. We decide to hang out in the lounge area of the hostel. As other people were there as well, we end up talking to everyone. One of the guys brought back beer for me and bought WAY too much beer (24 pack) just for me. I don't know what he was thinking. I shared the beer with some of the folks. Made tons of friends. This guy from Jersey (the country) who was pretty funny and had some great stories from traveling around the world. Nick, a guy from the UK who had jokes left and right about everything. He had a joke about everything you'd say, good guy. These two sisters, Sara and I forget the other girl's name. Also this group from NY State that came to Montr�al to basically party. I forget most of their names but they were fun to hang out with. They were all still in High School 15, 16, and 17's. Really fun group though. And Jeff, extremely drunk making a crazy amount of noise but was funny for the most part. The night was amazing. I got pretty drunk as did everyone else. A fun group of people and it's a shame that I most likely will never see them again. It's close to 4am and need to finally sleep. What a day!

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