Did a quick trip to Montreal and headed home. Highly recommend. Side note: the exchange rate is favorable right now (we just got lucky with that).
About 800 miles. Fuel cost of $115 - high speed charge up and down and a top off at hotel L2. The Rivian charger in Queensbury is perfecto location wise - 2.5 hours from Montreal and 3.5 from home.
Man, the food in Montreal is fresh, clean and good. My wife put together a mini walking food tour map for the fam in the Miles End area: gnocchi, Montreal bagels, Ukrainian perogis, ice cream (including home made soft serve which I have yet to find in the US). The bagel place (Fairmont bagels) happened to have the best pretzel I have tasted.
We went to Jean Talon market (sp?) a cool open air market. Had some very good ‘prosciutto’ from Quebec ham cured there that therefore cannot be called prosciutto.
One night homemade hand pulled noodle place where I had Dan Dan noodles medium spice (reminds me of bolognese without the tomatoes and add chili). So good.
Very walkable city with lots of great places to run near the old port area. Did 9 miles Saturday morning in some drizzle and was pretty much alone though I saw a big group (maybe 50) about to start a run. From that area ran onto what I think is one of the landfill islands adjacent by an industrial area. Felt very walking dead/zombie apocalypse as it is picturesque and overgrown there.
Our stay was at china town (points hack at holiday inn) across the street from the metro, five minutes walk from down town, 10 to old town and 10 to old port. Subways and buses ran at least every 10 minutes. The china town is small and quality but also a great spot to get to other areas of the city. We didn’t need to drive over a 4 day stay.
Fast forward to a sunny Sunday and the old port area was quite the people watching operation. We shot over to Mont Royal (their Central Park but overlooking the city). Fun time.
