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Not Bike Travelling Canada and the USA
- Thread starter robbieb
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Williamson
Part of the furniture
Good stuff there Robbie.
I liked the Air NZ safety vid too, especially this one we saw on our flights to and from NZ.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SQDip9V49U0
Warning to Doug. View this and you'll feel like a ride to the Mirboo North bakery. Mmmmmmmm, I always feel like a ride to Mirboo North.
I liked the Air NZ safety vid too, especially this one we saw on our flights to and from NZ.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SQDip9V49U0
Warning to Doug. View this and you'll feel like a ride to the Mirboo North bakery. Mmmmmmmm, I always feel like a ride to Mirboo North.
So, that's the replacement after the legal shitstorm the previous one stirred up?
(the film maker of the "Goblin/ whatever" went after Air NZ for copyright infringements etc, using their protected characters in the ad).
Williamson
Part of the furniture
More to come ..... keep going Robbie.
Could be, but the Hobbit's director, Peter Jackson features at 1:40, so I suspect there must've been some agreement to use The Hobbit theme for the safety movie.
Could be, but the Hobbit's director, Peter Jackson features at 1:40, so I suspect there must've been some agreement to use The Hobbit theme for the safety movie.
robbieb
Tassie Daddy
Next day we had crepes for breakfast, then went for a look up Mont Royal, or as we thought of it, Hill Royal, although compared to the surrounding landscape I can understand why they chose to dub it a mountain.
Being Canada, there are Squirrels galore here. The whole thing about needing to stockpile stores for winter doesn't seem to matter to these guys, the made some trees look like they were full of Xmas baubles, and what was dropped on the ground was even easier to get
Mont Royal, as well as being the inspiration for the city's name of Montreal, is a winter (and I suppose summer) playground. The paths that normally would take walkers, joggers and cyclists in the summer are groomed by a machine for cross country skiing. Wait a second, though, what's this?
Those are some big ass studded snow tyres on those mountain bikes, so not all summer activities are off because of the snow and bitter cold. What's even more incredible, the number of nutters still out jogging, and then the big group of boot camp style exercise, running up flights of stairs and then coming down on their hands and knees, carrying inner tubes full of sand. :wow: Whackjobs, I say!
Though I did spy this just off the track
The view out over the city. No wonder this place has a thriving underground network of trains, shops, walkways. I'm sure it looks nicer in the summer with green trees and all
Just across the way from the lookout is the Chalet, built by some ski club or something. a rather grand structure, and a safe haven for a warm up and hot chocolate
Whilst my fiancée returns to our accommodation my sister and I head down to the port area to have a look at the science museum, though we get there a little late and only have about an hour before closing time. The exhibition we went to see was crap, so checked out other more interesting parts, then got booted out.
Went to a pub for a sample of local breweries dark beers. Some very interesting ones, like maple, which is sickly sweet, and one of the ambers has whiskey, making it around 12%... Yoiks!
We were lead to believe that there was an ice hotel in town, over near the Biodome, so we went off in search of it, only to find out it wasn't actually in town this year
Jacques Cartier Bridge and the supposed location of the non existent ice hotel
The river is flowing, but full of ice and snow
The Biodome, from Expo '67, no longer covered, it houses some sort of environmental museum, which we forego, but have a closer look at the structure
Bagels are great with cream cheese, and a bit of vegemite out of the tube we brought with us.
This local shop makes them fresh, and you can see the process from dough, where the guy rolls out a thin piece, wraps it round his hand, breaks it off, roll the ends together, then the doughy bagel gets boiled prior to going into the oven for the golden, crispy outside. My sister even saw a bag of Tasmanian Alkaloids poppy seeds in this shop once
Only shot of the Metro, which looks like some strange mash between a train and a bus
That's it for Montreal, next stop, New York City!
Being Canada, there are Squirrels galore here. The whole thing about needing to stockpile stores for winter doesn't seem to matter to these guys, the made some trees look like they were full of Xmas baubles, and what was dropped on the ground was even easier to get
Mont Royal, as well as being the inspiration for the city's name of Montreal, is a winter (and I suppose summer) playground. The paths that normally would take walkers, joggers and cyclists in the summer are groomed by a machine for cross country skiing. Wait a second, though, what's this?
Those are some big ass studded snow tyres on those mountain bikes, so not all summer activities are off because of the snow and bitter cold. What's even more incredible, the number of nutters still out jogging, and then the big group of boot camp style exercise, running up flights of stairs and then coming down on their hands and knees, carrying inner tubes full of sand. :wow: Whackjobs, I say!
Though I did spy this just off the track
The view out over the city. No wonder this place has a thriving underground network of trains, shops, walkways. I'm sure it looks nicer in the summer with green trees and all
Just across the way from the lookout is the Chalet, built by some ski club or something. a rather grand structure, and a safe haven for a warm up and hot chocolate
Whilst my fiancée returns to our accommodation my sister and I head down to the port area to have a look at the science museum, though we get there a little late and only have about an hour before closing time. The exhibition we went to see was crap, so checked out other more interesting parts, then got booted out.
Went to a pub for a sample of local breweries dark beers. Some very interesting ones, like maple, which is sickly sweet, and one of the ambers has whiskey, making it around 12%... Yoiks!
We were lead to believe that there was an ice hotel in town, over near the Biodome, so we went off in search of it, only to find out it wasn't actually in town this year
Jacques Cartier Bridge and the supposed location of the non existent ice hotel
The river is flowing, but full of ice and snow
The Biodome, from Expo '67, no longer covered, it houses some sort of environmental museum, which we forego, but have a closer look at the structure
Bagels are great with cream cheese, and a bit of vegemite out of the tube we brought with us.
This local shop makes them fresh, and you can see the process from dough, where the guy rolls out a thin piece, wraps it round his hand, breaks it off, roll the ends together, then the doughy bagel gets boiled prior to going into the oven for the golden, crispy outside. My sister even saw a bag of Tasmanian Alkaloids poppy seeds in this shop once
Only shot of the Metro, which looks like some strange mash between a train and a bus
That's it for Montreal, next stop, New York City!
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twowheeler
two wheels are best
Whoohoo....look at that carpentry!!
Magnificent stuff.
And that Biodome thingy...whow!!
Bagels and Vegemite :bang: barf!!
That really is a curious mix...sort of, like the local tyre guy barged in at the last minute and bribed the city chiefs out of their jocks to take the steel wheels off, replacing them with a mountain of 1940's rims and hoops he had laying around in some paddock.
LOVING this thread...and the variety, snapshots of this and that along the way...awesome!
Thanks for posting this up, it's a joy to flick between the pages to have yet another look at some nice shots