Today after school I went for a walk in Jean Drapeau Park. It's on a little island between Montréal and the mainland but there's a Metro station there so it was very easy for me to get there.
Apart from the usual park things there's also a giant
buckyball. I saw this from the bus on the way to Quebec city, apparently it was built for the 1967 World Expo but now it's home to a special water purification facility. There's a Museum of Water even! (I thought of Baden when I saw that but that still wasn't enough to make me
pay money to hear about water purification. But, come to think of it, the tap water here in Montreal tastes much better than the terrible stuff we get in Bloomington.)
It's a surprisingly good park considering it's so close to the city but still not as nice as Sydney's Botanic Gardens. One thing they have that we don't get so much in Sydney, though, is groundhogs (aka woodchucks). Today was the first time I'd seen one so I took a photo. They're a bit timid and run into their burrows when you try to take their photo but this one poked his head back out.
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Apart from the usual park things there's also a giant buckyball. I saw this from the bus on the way to Quebec city, apparently it was built for the 1967 World Expo but now it's home to a special water purification facility. There's a Museum of Water even! (I thought of Baden when I saw that but that still wasn't enough to make me pay money to hear about water purification. But, come to think of it, the tap water here in Montreal tastes much better than the terrible stuff we get in Bloomington.)
It's a surprisingly good park considering it's so close to the city but still not as nice as Sydney's Botanic Gardens. One thing they have that we don't get so much in Sydney, though, is groundhogs (aka woodchucks). Today was the first time I'd seen one so I took a photo. They're a bit timid and run into their burrows when you try to take their photo but this one poked his head back out.
3 comments:
Hey hey - lovely to be thought of, I must say. My, yuou have ben busy tourin and blogging. Tis excellent.
'As an aside' (shameful promotion there for those in the know), the Adelaide public transport system is known as the Metro. And water treatment is dull, so be glad you did not pay. How exciting do you really find osmosis, after all? There was something else that I forget - but while I think of it, do folks in Montreal call themself Montrealiens? I would if I were from Montreal.
Montrealien.
That can be the new word of the day.
Oh, and don't get too excited about friands. I have tried several times to appreciate them, but I conclude they are just a way of charging full price for a small muffin.
Good lor, I really should have edited and spell checked...
No, no, no! Friands are not just muffins! A friand is made from nut meal (I thought it was hazelnut but Wikipedia says almond-meal). It's not light, glutinous and cakey, it's heavy and crumbly. A whole muffin of friand would be too much, hence the smaller size, but I do agree that they are usually over-priced.
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