Assalamualaikum and haiiii.
Okay, tiba masa untuk meninggalkan bumi Old Quebec yang sangat cantik dan hatiku tertinggal di sana. Dan marilah menuju ke Montreal pulak. Ada tiga cara nak pergi Montreal- by flight, by bus @ by train. Flight (Air Canada Express etc) dalam 52 minutes, by bus @ train dalam 3h +. Bus usually Orleans Express, while train pulak VIARail. Which bus cheaper lah than train. The only transport yang I tak naik dekat Canada is VIARail. Maybe kena repeat kot?🙈
Check out from hotel dalam pukul 11am then ambik taxi to Gare du Palais (train station & bus station) to catch 11.30am bus. Masa nak balik ni, bumi QC dihujani snow. Macam sajaaaa je tanak bagi balik. Sedih kot sobs. 😭To book bus express dekat sini senang je. This one- Orleans Express, book online je from Malaysia, bila sampai sana, just tunjuk tiket yang dia dah emailkan pada kita, then bagi luggage dekat dia untuk dia masukkan dalam bus, kita naik je bus. Oh, untuk trip Quebec City - Montreal ni, seat bebas. Boleh pilih je nak duduk seat mana. Memula risau jugak sebab kang seat tu ada orang ke apa kannnn, pehtu tanya driver bus tu, dia memang cakap- "just seat anywhere you want". So, yeah.
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| Gare du Palais |
Dari QC to Montreal, it took around 3 hours + and the view sepanjang perjalanan tu cantik sangatttt. Snow everywhere. 😍and Alhamdulillah, I arrived dekat Montreal dalam pukul 2.50pm then terus ambik Uber to the hotel. Masa dekat Montreal ni, ada baaaanyak construction tengah berjalan, so its kind of tak best jugak nak berjalan sangat. Oh, BTW, I stay dekat Montreal boleh cakap one full day je. Sebab sampai dah nak gelap, then 3rd day tu, pagi2 dah keluar to catch another bus pulak to Toronto.
I stay dekat Hotel Le Deville di Montreal. Hotel ni located around arts and entertainment hub, nearby Gay Village jugak. cough. So, memang we can see ramai anak2 muda around the area, wall arts everywhere and also the most important thing is, makanan halal is VERY nearby. Halal fast food just next block and of course makanan arab pun ada nearby.
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| View from my room |
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| One of the wall art |
Truth to be told, I tak jalan much in Montreal. Boleh kata touch n go je. One of the reason is I demam masa dekat sini and another one adalah masa tu ada snow blizzard(?) ke snow storm(?) ntah. sorry, noob. tatau which one is which untuk right term for that weather. eheh.
Back to story, dekat Montreal ni I just pergi ke Montreal City Hall then to Place Jacques-Cartier. Yeah, memang tak pergi mana kot.
Anyway, Montreal City Hall ni ada guided tour, tapi I tak masuk. I just walked around the city hall je. Bangunan City Hall ni dibina berinspirasikan City Hall dekat Tours- one of the French city. Depan City Hall ni lah Place Jacques-Cartier and dekat belakang City Hall ada park- Champ-de Mars.
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| Montreal City Hall from Champ-de-Mars |
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| Montreal City Hall |
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| Front look of Montreal City Hall |
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| Belakang Montreal City Hall |
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and then I walked to Place Jacques-Cartier. Kawasan ni boleh kata heart of Old Montreal (Vieux-Montréal). Kawasan ni kiranya tempat shopping, tempat hang out for locals. Lots of shops dekat kiri kanan and predestrian friendly. I bet masa summer lawa gila tempat lepak keliling. Masa I pergi, tengah ada construction, so nak jalan tengok kiri kanan menikmati tu tak berapa enjoy lah sebenarnya.
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| Place Jacques-Cartier |
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| The art |
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| Construction |
Masa ni weather okay lagi tau. Then, I masuk kedai untuk makan sebab lapar terukkk, dah settle makan nak sambung jalan, weather dah berubah. Limited view, wind kuat semua lah yang buatkan I dont want to sambung lagi untuk elak dari anything happen. I terus balik hotel, jalan for 10 minutes jugak baru sampai hotel nak lawan angin, dengan view limited semua. fuh. mencabar. but one of the kenangan manis jugak. Bila lagi nak rasa redah semua tu kan? Kat Malaysia takde kot.
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Itu je Montreal punya cerita. Next one is the most MOST memorable one. Niagara Falls !
till then,
xoxo, Pinat.
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