Les Deux Pierrots, (514) 861-1270, www.lespierrots.com. Does
sitting in a brick-walled bar in
Montreal's oldest neighborhood
while singing along to French and English cabaret songs sound
silly? Well, then, it's time to get silly.
SHOPPING
Marché Bonsecours, (514) 872-7730, www.marchebonsecours.qc.ca.
Unfortunately, they're no longer selling fresh vegetables at this
European-style marketplace. But they are selling locally made
crafts, so that's nice.
ATTRACTIONS
La Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal, (514) 842-2925,
www.basilique
nddm.org. Is the interior of this scaled-down, nineteenth-century
replica of
Paris's Notre-Dame more dramatic than the original's?
That depends on how you feel about the stunning use of the color
blue.
Le Mont Royal, (514) 843-8240, www.lemontroyal.qc.ca. Frederick Law
Olmsted, who laid out New York's Central Park, also designed this
sprawling space. It's filled with hiking and biking trails and is
capped by a 98-foot-high cross, which honors Paul de Chomedey,
Sieur de Maisonneuve, the city's founder.
About
Montreal: There are more than 3.6 million people in Montreal
and its immediate urban area. That's nearly half the population of
the province of
Quebec. Some 70 percent of those people are native
French speakers, making Montreal the second-largest francophone
city in the world, after Paris. Plus, Montreal is in
Canada.