Montreal (Part Three)

As you might have notice from my previous post, Montreal is most definitely a walking city. And anywhere you can't get on foot, you can get by Metro. Here are some more of my Montreal wanderings.

How could I visit my old hometown without also visiting my old school, F.A.C.E. (which stands for Fine Arts Core Education)? Two years of arts-intensive, French-immersion eduction, with classmates from diverse backgrounds. In my kindergarten class (at a different school) we had 18 different nationalities. No wonder we all had to learn French!

The school looks exactly as it did when I attended, nearly 20 years ago. In fact, this is the very courtyard in which I: a) played kissing tag with my friends and our crushes, b) sang and danced Mickey, and c) stood in the snow in (water-permeable) gymnastics slippers when there was a fire in the top floor cafeteria. My best friend, Ursie, and I used to sit in the cafeteria, trading stickers in our collections. Ah, good times.

F.A.C.E. is across the street from McGill University, one of the preeminent schools in Canada. It also has a lovely campus, as you can see from this pic of the main entrance.

And on a campus side street, I snapped this glorious picture of cherries. (I am seriously in love with this picture and want to have it framed.)

Montreal is also a city of great public art. There is sculpture around every corner. Besides the hearts you saw in yesterday's post, I also loved this fun sculpture of three ladies in Vieux-Montreal:

And this one on rue Sherbrooke, called la Tendresse. I don't think you need a translation to know what this sculpture means.

In Montreal, rue Saint-Catherine is the main shopping drag, but if you're look for bars and boutiques, then rue Crescent is the place to go.

In a great feat of willpower, I did not succumb to any shopping. My trip is too long and my bag too tightly packed to buy anything but the bare minimum. I think my pictures and my memories will more than suffice for this trip.

Instead of doing another Montreal post, I am going to combine the rest of the pictures I want to share into a shared post with Quebec. So next up, look for my first post about Quebec City.

Hugs,
TLC