OK, here I go while I have time :
Transportation in Mtl is sometimes easier by bus and subway:
http://www.stm.info/English/a-somm.htm
Bars :
- Crescent street (bars where mostly Anglo go)
- St-Laurent street (bars where mostly Franco go)
Restaurant :
- breakfeast : http://www.chezcora.com/Main-en/Main-en.htm is a MUST
- lots of good sushi restaurant and little shop.
- Mexican food, downtown : http://www.restomontreal.ca/restaurants/index.php?section=viewresto&resto_id=1656
Museums( firts 3 are downtown) :
- arts (if you don't go the major exhibition, price is lower) : http://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/plan_du_site/index.html
- Canadian history : http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/
- archeology, in Mc Gill U (
free, and Mc Gill has a nice campus : ) http://www.mcgill.ca/redpath/
- archeology, in old Mtl : http://www.pacmusee.qc.ca/index.aspx?lang=EN-CA
- http://www.planetarium.montreal.qc.ca/Planetarium/index_a.html (low entry fee, but small place)
Movies:
- AMC Forum and Paramount are downtown. But you have an IMAX in the old port
, in old Montreal, which is worth seeing
http://www.cinemamontreal.com/Montreal-fr.html
''To see'':
- Mtl web site to choose something as the Olympic stadium or else
http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/portal/page?_pageid=66,48047&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
if you like to walk : http://www.vieux.montreal.qc.ca/
a lot of things are connected by tunnels (subway stations, hotels, shopping center, some parts of old Mtl)
http://www.toutmontreal.com/guide/quartiers/vst/
- the casino, (but leave your credits cards in your room), its a very unusual place (well, was for me : )
http://www.casino-de-montreal.com/montreal/nav/en/home
- library : http://www.banq.qc.ca/portal/dt/accueil.jsp
I may have forget something,but it's a good beginning
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