These are from the end of last week. I spent last week at YUL (Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport). Except for a couple of trips on the 747 (I kid you not) bus into downtown, it was very claustrophobic to be in an airport hotel for a week. A half mile walk to the local Starbucks at the other end of the long hallway from the hotel lobby to the other end of the terminal.
However, I brought my bike (and my camera). Then managed to bollix almost all of the photos into the trashcan.
So, one quick-ish ride out to Parc René-Lévesque. The ride along chemin du Bord-du-Lac was delightful, and I *loved* these
signs.
The following late afternoon a longer ride along Canal de Lachine to Vieux-Montréal and back. Besides biking (or walking) around Old Montreal is wonderful, I was amazed by the numbers of commuters on Bixi bikes.
Bixi is the company in Montreal who makes so many of the bike share systems, including Hubway, Citi Bike, Capital Bikeshare, and of course Boris Bikes, aka Barclays Cycle Hire.
In Boston, there are usually a few Hubway bikes mixed in with all the folks on their own bicycles, in Montreal during the commute time, it's vastly the other way around, about 4 out of 5 bikes are Bixi bikes.
The two photos that didn't end up in the trashcan at least capture the unique venue I stayed at:
-mr. bill