Hmmm I'm not sure I can be of much help...I've only been to Montreal once myself, and it was supervising my nieces class trip. We went to the Olympic stadium and got a tour, which was kind of cool if you're into sports and stuff. The biodome is also cool. We also hit up a place called the "sugar shack" which is a maple farm that taps trees and makes their own maple syrup. That part was particularly exciting to me because I love learning about food and how its made...but most people wouldn't be interested in it.
Sorry I can't be of much help. I'd suggest taking a day to stroll around Old Montreal, down by the water. Its quite lovely and as you walk around you can just feel the history of the city...lots of nice little shops and stuff too.
Oh that's okay! Besides, I also actually
VERY MUCH dig and am interested in how food is processed in general, as well as how a lot of it is made up from other ingredieants. As long as too many don't freak out over my U.S. accent (which isn't too heavy & obnoxious, but even still I know outside of U.S. waters opinions very and all of that) and don't spit on me, I'm pretty sure I'll have a fine time.
Besides, I have two close Francophone friends who e-mail me regularly that I plan to meet up with, and I'm sure they'll be of great help to me! One of them is also graduatinig soon from Montreal's McGill University (she actually moved there a few years ago to begin attending school' her family is orignially from St. Martin), and I'm sure they'll be a big help. Too bad I don't plan to go while they're holding the annual FantAsia Film Festivale, as I'm big genre film cinephile that takes it all quite seriously, and it's the one film festivale, along with Cannes in the south of Frane (amusingly enough also a French-speaking region, of course) that I always wanted to go to. I find Utah actually stunning to look at for the most part, but Sundance here in my own country doesn't have quite the kick and flavor of Montreal, though. Go figure.
Big thanks once again (or merci). :glugglug:
