I was a bit not comfortable with the next destination – Montreal because I know it would a lot different than any other cities. Yes, we are heading to Montreal today. It’s approximately three hours from Ottawa to Montreal. On the way to Montreal, I could tell that we were getting into the province of Quebec by seeing the French signs and Quebec driving license plates.
Since we were not willing to share the bathroom with other four female strangers in the hostels we changed our accommodations to the hotel when in Montreal, and because of the budget and kinda last minute, we didn’t have many choices and ended up staying in the kinda 50s, 60s-ish lodge with weird pattern bed sheets and curtains and smelly washroom and room. I kinda expected that but still in shock when I actually saw it myself.
And, you hardly see English or hear people speak English on the street. That’s the second shock. Apparently, someone didn’t like it and kept asking me to go back earlier. This was not what I’d planed it so I felt pissed. Only the first day in Montreal and wanted me to changed the flight date, seriously?
We still had to get out of the hotel and go out to see the street and the city although I was a bit freaked out too. But it’s exciting as well, you visit a city, and you go explore the city. I believed that’s the spirit of traveling.
Rue St. Catherine
So, we asked the owner of the hotel about how to get to those attractions I planned. Here is the Rue Saint Catherine-est and this is the Gay Village I supposed. Yeah, saw some homosexual couples walking on this street. 
Is it the culture different or something, you could see twice as much or even more of them than other places that I’ve been.
Metro Station
UQAM
What’s interesting was that I didn’t know that I was at downtown Montreal already. The buildings here are unique and old, you won’t see anything that you are familiar with, even the brands that you are familiar with, they are in the very old buildings. One more thing that freaked me out was that there was a gunshot on the street today downtown Montreal. A police shot the homeless so the street was blocked by the yellow tapes for the whole day. We saw that on the news via this old TV in the hotel.
Still got lots of time and didn’t know where we could go except for Shoppers, it’s really a good companion, how would I stay without it? Heading back to the hotel, I scheduled everything again…and then…nothing to do. Watched what’s on the TV the whole night, browsed Facebook through my phone. Thank god that I bought my phone or the trip could possibly be less fun.
Explore the city tomorrow, good night, I was tired.
