Today was a rest day. So I used the morning to catch up on my blogs. I’ve found that whilst I can write in the evening, the photos will not upload into WordPress then – maybe due to me using the hotel wireless which is more likely to be used by many others at the same time. So now I do that in the mornings.

The only plan I had for today was (a) go back to Au Summet Place Ville Marie to take photos if the sky was clear (it was when I got up but was overcast and snowing by the time I got out of my shower),

and (b) take a walk down to the Old Port in the afternoon with the intention of being near the ice rink as the sun goes down for some photos.

So at lunchtime I headed down to the Old Port. There are lots of the old buildings from the 1800s and it looks great. In the right light, the photos come out well to but by this time the clouds were very grey. I did get some nice shots of partial buildings which again I’ll have a play with stitching together when I make some time to do so.

When I reached the Old Port, I headed over to the “fun” area. On the way, I took a photo of the berths that had all frozen up.

Then I reach the fun placed. They have lots of great things to do when the weather is fine, including a flying fox (zipline), jet boats, various other water craft, large shore-bound sail boats to play on, and smaller ones to hire, ferries, ice skating rink etc. Herewith one of the sail ships that you can play on. There was also a large black pirate ship, but I could not get to that.

And here is the ice rink when I arrived.The wires at the top right of the frame are for the zpline.

I then went and had a hot chocolate whilst waiting for the sun to go down. Then I wandered around and took a few photos.

This first photo is of the Point Jacques-Cartier Bridge – with a projection on the tower (there were short films of images moving, rather than pictures just rotating through), so I stayed to watch some of those.

Somebody had made a snowman (not me, my hands were too cold).

The Biosphere, musee de l’environnement. Unfortunately this was closed during my visit.

And a couple of photos of a part of the city through and including the ice rink. In the second photo you may just be able to see some of the snowflakes come down as another snow shower had just commenced.

After this I headed home. On the way, I popped into an Italian restaurant close to the hotel for dinner. I started off with my first taste of one of the great Canadian foods – mac and cheese (truffle infused of course). I had it with a side salad.

I then had a main course of mushroom risotto, finishing with a chocolate parfait and an Irish Cream coffee. The perfect end to a lazy day.