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I don’t think I’ve written much about how French Montreal actually is. Basically everyone here talks in French. If you walk down the street, the only English you’ll usually hear is from tourists or the rare Canadian who is either from outside of Quebec or is talking in ( Read more... )

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Canada Day Parade brings out some weird people…


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Yesterday I walked around with a someone from Wales. We basically just checked out the Canada Day parade, which was pretty un-impressive - but did add to the general atmosphere of the day. Then did some general wandering through old Montreal. There were people ( Read more... )

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So I figured I should write something in here.

I’m in Montreal. There is a Jazz Festival on here. People talk in weird Canadian-French all the time, and I feel like an ignorant English only speaking tourist. People at this hostel want me to go play cards with them, but ( Read more... )

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Today I couldn’t be stuffed doing anything… but I walked around Boston and went in to the Institute of Contemporary Art - which was kind of boring. I wasn’t expecting all that much, but thought it would be a little more interesting than it was. Ended up back at the ( Read more... )

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So it turns out I actually like Boston. It’s really clean, there seems to be a lot going on, and it’s has this cool ‘old town’ vibe in the city.

I discovered that they were filming scenes for the movie The Surrogates today. I only worked this out because I managed to ( Read more... )

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Ok… so I’m in Boston.

Not much else to say really. I got here and realised I needed to plan the last week of NA since there’s Independence Day on the 4th in the US and Canada Day on the 1st in Canada. Spending Canada Day in montreal should be interesting… parade’s and ( Read more... )

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Thanks for raining today New York. Well, the city didn’t do the raining, but it did happen to be in the spot where the rain fell. Actually, it wasn’t too bad… and since the weather was humid anyway, it just helped cool things down a bit. Made for a nice walk through ( Read more... )

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Back in New York. You have to love this city… it’s always alive and moving. Haven’t done much since being here - although I did finally use the Subway. No Adrian, I’m not talking about food, I’m talking about transportation. Funnily enough my ticket didn’t work, so the ( Read more... )

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Ok, last night in Philly tonight. Haven’t met up with Kris, which is a shame since I doubt I’ll be back this way any time soon - but she’s been caught up in far more important affairs so it’s just an unfortunate series of timing. My trip has been full of that so far, ( Read more... )