Day 24
Metro back to the Montreal Space For Life to visit the Montreal Biodome, an exhibit of 5 ecosystems including a hot and humid tropical exhibit which reminded us why we leave Florida in the summer. Other exhibits included the Laurentian maple forest, the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the Labrador coast and the Sub-Arctic and Sub-Antarctic regions which included the puffins and also penguins. Afternoon was at the Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium for two shows. Then we headed to Old Montreal for a traditional Basque dinner at Les Pyrenees. The pork tenderloin in madeira sauce was excellent as was Aaron’s Valencia mussels and Rosemary’s sea bass in roasted red pepper sauce. Dessert was Gateau Roule Catalan l’Orange nappe de Chocolat Tiede (rolled Catalan orange cake topped with warm chocolate sauce). Plate licking outstanding but Rosemary would not let me lick the plate. We topped off a marvelous day with the Montreal based Cirque du Soleil show “Luzia”.
Day 23
Metro to the Montreal Space For Life which is located in the facilities built for the 1976 Summer Olympic Games. First of the four complexes was the Montreal Botanical Gardens. We have been to many botanical gardens with greenhouses but in my view this was the best I have experienced. Ten greenhouses and 30 thematic gardens took up most of the day. Also within the gardens was the Insectarium, an interesting exhibit of live and mounted specimens. On the way to dinner was our daily stop at the patisserie to pick up dessert and then at Frite Alors! where we partake in La Montrealaise (smoked meat) poutine and La Canard (duck) poutine. Both delicious mounds of meat and gravy served over frites (french fries). Back to the coach to devour our pastries and happily stuffed again.
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