NY-Montreal 09 {Trips}

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Lea's pictures from Boston and New-York

Dates

• departure
  • 1st of November 2009
• return
  • 22nd of November 2009 (arrived the 23rd in the morning)

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Done

Day 0, trip

• add what's in my notebook

Day 1, first entire day in Montreal

• went to church X?
• saw McGill uni
• UQAM to see Lea's classes
• worked on my prioritization system
• discovered the municipal library
• saw Sain-tDenis and Sainte-Catherine streets
• Foulab

Day 2, Wedesnday

• pique-nique on the belvedaire of Mont-Royal
• UQAM pool
• La longue marche d'Obama: premier bilan du président démocrate Bilan de politique intérieure
• MAC
• Frite Alors ! on St Denis
• bar on St Denis

Day 3, Thursday

• parc Jean Drapeau
• St Viateur
• La longue marche d'Obama: premier bilan du président démocrate Bilan de politique étrangère

Day 4, Friday

• The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
• China town
• the old Montreal

Day 5, Saturday

• Concordia University
  • Mechanical and Industrial Engineering research tour with Dainius Juras
• Olympic Stadium
• 3 parties with Alban

Day 6, Sunday

• Université McGill
  • Cognitive Science lab
  • Museum
• Canal de Lachine

Day 7, Monday

• basketball
• photography session on the industrial area nearby the bank of the Saint-Laurent river

Day8, Tuesday

• basketball
• eating at L’Escalier
• Café philosophique - Nouvelle Acropole Montréal Matérialisme ou Idéalisme - consommer le monde ou l'améliorer? 7pm
  • see also the french equivalent http://www.nouvelle-acropole.fr/
  • add what's in my notebook
    • Thermoeconomics
    • The Entropy Law and the Economic Process, Harvard University Press 1971 by Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
• classical music, concerto for violin and cello in the subway playing Barber's Addagio, Mozart, ...

Day 9, Wednesday

• Request a tour of the Cognitive Science Program at McGill
  • expecting an answer
• The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (S2 level)
• MAC (S1 level)
• buy 2nd hand books like Behind The Mirror on Stanley, a bit north of Ste-Catherine accross the street from the Chapters
• eating at L’Escalier

Day 10, Thursday

• buying food at Jean-Talon market
  • a light salad (green leafs, tomatoes, grilled bread with honey) with petit fours (tiny pizzas)
    • rucola with walnuts and the honey dressing, crostini
  • salmon on german bread too for entree
  • chicken curry
  • crepes
• dinner with Francois-Pierre

Day 11, Friday

• Pool at UQAM
• Bodies the exhbition Centre d’Exposition de Montréal

Day 12, Saturday

• Dilemn by Cruz Control with several "tag team"

Day 13, Sunday

• Salon des études - Université de Montréal
  • Visites des laboratoires d'anthropologie: à 11 h, 12 h 30 et 14 h (max 15 personnes par visite). Présentez-vous au stand no 2 de la section jaune.
• Laurentides (Laurentides on Wikitravel)
  • AVIS ($60/day)
  • TripCalculator by MontrealGasPrices ($15 roundtrip Montreal to Saint Algathe des Monts)
  • Les Laurentides (The Laurentians) Hiking Trails | Mont-Tremblant-Village Quebec Hikes by Trails.com
  • Randonnée pédestre, Parc national du Mont-Tremblant by Sépaq
• Eidos Montreal OpenHouse

Day 14, Monday

• eating at Schwartz
• walking down Sainte-Catherine and its bookstores

Trip back

temperatures of the 3 cities according to Wolfram|Alpha

17th of November

• Greyhound from Montreal to Boston

18th

• Greater Boston's Public Transportation System by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)
• Freedom Trail by the City of Boston
• MIT
  • Campus Tour at 11:00a
  • eating at Stata
  • http://www.csail.mit.edu/CSAIL
  • MIT Museum
  • List Visual Arts Center
• Harvard
  • campus
  • Special performance in conjuction with Constellations by the Office Of the Arts
• Museum of Fine Arts

19th

• IAC
• chinese coach from Boston to NY

20th

• MET
  • podcasts
  • audioguide
• Central Park
• MOMA (evening)
  • MoMA Audio audio program devoted to the Museum's collection and special exhibitions.

21st

• Brooklyn Botanic Garden 10-12 noon
• Witney museum
• Chelsey galleries
• PS1
• Top of the Rock during the sunset
• Fat Cat, 75 Christopher st. at 7th av.
• Harlem's Historic, Lenox Lounge

22nd

• church in Harlem for gospel singing
• JFK airport

Information

• Office de tourisme des Etats-Unis, information formalites USA A la frontière terrestre (entre le Canada et les Etats-Unis et entre le Mexique et les Etats-Unis) vous devrez vous acquitter d'une taxe de US$ 6 payable uniquement en espèces .
• Weather in Montreal Area, QC, Canada November max 5°C, min -2°C
  • Tendance 14 jours: Montréal, Québec MétéoMédia
• Weather in New York Area, NY, USA November, max 12°C, min 5°C
• ESTA "Your travel authorization has been approved and you are authorized"
• Métro de Montréal

Reference

• travel websites
  • Montreal wikitravel tripwolf wikimapia
  • New-York city wikitravel tripwolf wikimapia
• Geek Atlas, OReilly 2009
  • NY
    • the Mossman Lock Collection
  • Canada
    • Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site

General remarks

• bit too inviting "hey, come live here!" several locals and expats who likes it too you have to "believe in it" to stay here
• hard to find actual canadians bit of an expats grouping despite having no language barrier
• remarks on how the cold actually makes human relations harder during winter it does have a negative impact on movement even in a large city, less everything during winter, including human contact.
  • Just tiring to move, remove layers andlayers, be sweaty, etc...so you moveles
  • even if not everybody is affected by that, if only a significant part of the population is, it does have an overall impact.
• Vas-tu venir habite ici au Canada ?
  • non car
    • hivers froid, cf au dessus
    • c'est bien americanise mine de rien (niveau nourriture entre autre)
    • je dois voir le "reste" avant (genre Nouvelle-Zelande)
  • malgre
    • etat d'esprit positif
    • amour de la langue et de la culture francaise (meme si idealise a mon avis)
    • Montreal est bien actif mais pourtant relax
    • Les Laurentides et les autres coins natures