Saturday, August 12, 2006

Montreal

This is the view from a friends apartment downtown. I never thought Montreal's skyline was that impressive but from this angle some of the buildings look pretty cool.


These funky tunnels connect the Montreal World Trade Centre with the underground city. They're super cool and deserted. Great place to take pictures.


The orange julius at night. It's not evident in the photo but basically it's a giant orange on the side of the highway with mystery juice that magically comes down pipes from the centre of the orange where highschool students and unfortunate immigrants squeeze oranges all day for minimum wages ( I think).


Photograph courtesy of a friend, one of my favourites of the trip. She took it from the inside of the Montreal World Trade Centre. No relation to the twin towers.

Montreal tam tams. It wasn't as good as I remember it mostly cause the statue, where the tam tams used to be based, is under renovation. It was also kind of hot that day.
Ontario street at night (I think) from Pont Jacques Carties. We were out there to watch the fireworks and caught this shot on the way back. We didn't notice it when we were walking but when I had the camera leaning on the bridge railing I could feel the bridge moving a little from all the people walking on it.


Just For Laughs street fest. Montreal is festival city, I got there right after the Jazz fest but I got to see the Just For Laughs fest. We caught a show called the Asian Invasion, supposedly some of the best Asian comedian around today, unfortunately it was quite disappointing and kinda discouraged me from watching other shows. The weird creature in picutre 9 was walking around the street in between kids with his package exposed.

These pictures were taken at the botanical gardens and insectarium. The insectarium is one of my favourite day trips in Montreal, especially the stick insects and big beatles.


This was at the protest against Israeli aggressions in both Lebanon and Palestine. It was relatively small cause it was during the summer, about 3000 people showed up. Half started off at Concordia and the other half had spent the night in front of the Israeli consulate. We met at Guy Favreau, the Canadian federal building, where it started rainning on us. A couple of days after I left they held another protest with about 15, 000 people. Members of the oposition political parties joined in for political gain but nevertheless it was good that it was for our side for once.
These were taken at Parc Lafontaine in the East End. It's a beautiful park that I rarely visited in Montreal cause it's a bit far from the West Side (represent) but a great location for a pic nic and football game.

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