{"id":1892,"date":"2004-12-31T00:17:58","date_gmt":"2004-12-31T05:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2008-05-01T07:00:24","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T11:00:24","slug":"in-but-not-of-montral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/31\/in-but-not-of-montral\/","title":{"rendered":"in, but not of, Montr\u00c3\u00a9al"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Schwartz's<\/a>
\n(photo above links to gallery images)<\/em><\/p>\n

We’re just back, and we had the best time. We basically lived out of a copy of Fodor’s that Caroline<\/a> lent us.<\/p>\n

I was immediately taken by Montr\u00c3\u00a9al’s subway system<\/a>. Not merely do they run on rubber tyres (fast acceleration!) and have cool station names (c’mon, wouldn’t you rather travel from C\u00c3\u00b4te-Vertu to Henri-Bourassa than from Kipling to Kennedy?), but the power electronics in the trains “play” the first three notes of Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s version of Fanfare for the Common Man<\/em>. Which, if my memory’s mot completely gone, had something to do with the Montr\u00c3\u00a9al 1976 Olympic stadium.<\/p>\n

We stayed at the Lord Berri Hotel<\/a>, which is pretty much downtown. We were most taken with the food. Schwartz’s Deli<\/a> does the best smoked meat ever (it’s worth the wait), while St-Viateur Bagel<\/a> really does whup the oversized, overrated New York bagel.<\/p>\n

(St-Viateur was the only problem we had with Fodor’s. They said that the St-Viateur Bagel & Caf\u00c3\u00a9 was at 1127, avenue du Mont-Royal Ouest<\/strong><\/em>, while in reality it’s at 1127, avenue du Mont-Royal Est<\/strong><\/em>. Our STM 3 day tourist passes, and a passing Mont Royal bus, saved the day.)<\/p>\n

The city reminded me of Edinburgh, minus the unpleasant smell. We’ll definitely be back many times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(photo above links to gallery images) We’re just back, and we had the best time. We basically lived out of a copy of Fodor’s that Caroline lent us. I was immediately taken by Montr\u00c3\u00a9al’s subway system. Not merely do they run on rubber tyres (fast acceleration!) and have cool station names (c’mon, wouldn’t you rather […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[1264],"class_list":["post-1892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-o-canada","tag-montreal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-uw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}