2 posts tagged “montreal”
so i went to chinatown on sunday while i was downtown doing some major christmas shopping.
i was walking down the central street and i hear a rattling of sticks. i turn to look and i see an old man sitting stooped on a stool shaking a bamboo cup of wood sticks. a cardboard box sign sat propped up in front of him. "Chinese face and hand reading. 50 years of experience". i stopped and approached him. he looked up and smiled, cataracts making his eyes a dull blue. "What do you do?" he stopped shaking the cup. "I tell your future, i learned from my father and my grandfather and my great grandfather, i'm very experience." I was curious, really curious now. i hear about them all the time, chinese fortune telling, and heard of people who consult fortune tellers all the time, but this is the first time i have ever been able to do it. i hesitated. my future, all told to me, true or not, i would know it and i would always remember it and it would always hang over my head. alright, if the price he's asking is within the amount of money i have in my wallet, i'll have a go. "How much is it?" "$20".
tough luck old man. "Thank you very much" I nodded politely to him and left.
or rather two days :/
Quebec is beautiful, in a wildernessy way.
and an old european way.
and in a french way.
the best things we did?
visited plateau petite-champlain (i think thats what its called), which is a small block of knick knack shops, cafes, restuarants, artist galleries. its a throwback to quebec's european roots, charming buildings, people taking pictures everywhere.
second place we visited
chute montmorency, its supposed to be 1.5x bigger than niagara falls. whatever, it looked less "grand" than i expected. and there was a whole bunch of dirty crap floating at the top of the falls. yuck.
but other than that, it was pretty beautiful up there :
and then some more scenic pics from the top
ON TO MONTREALL!!
