Here are some pictures from Montréal (Canada). This was the only weekend trip that I have done so far. Montréal happens to be the second-largest French-speaking city of the world, but it's no problem to get along with English as almost everyone there speaks both languages quite perfect. Compared to the USA it feels much more European (French?), from food (il y a des boulangeries, and it's quite common to drink wine in a restaurant) to the metric system (km/h, °C, kg, cm).

We were four students sharing a room in the Days Inn in Montréal: Sandra, Martin, Guido and me. Martin (the old one) and Guido (the long-hair one) are both exchange students from Germany (just like me), and Sandra is from France. It was quite helpful to have a native French person to ask for the way, even if we could have done this in English as well. You may recognize that on some of the photos she has a paper in her hand: the map. She loved trying to read the map as much as she loved asking people for the way. During our short stay there she (ab)used (read: destroyed) at least two completely innocent maps...

What else can i say? I spent less than 48 hours there and missed some events in UConn where I really wanted to go to, but I don't regret it a minute. If only the weather had been better - it was either cold or rainy most of the time.

Some postcards:

C'est la place Jacques-Cartier

The same place, some months before... snow!

Nice one. In front you can see the Casino de Montréal sur l'Île Notre-Dame, connected to downtown by the Concorde bridge. Le mont Royal (more a hill than a mountain) can be seen in the background. Martin was the only one in our group who walked there.

Now some real photos. All of them are from Sandra - merci beaucoup!

All four of us having Dinner in a French restaurant. This was on the first evening in Montréal. In case you don't know by now: it's Guido, me, Martin, and Sandra.	Being too lazy to climb le mont Royal, we asked at a hotel if they could unlock the roof so we can take some photos.
It's not a postcard, it's a real photo. Again, you can see that the weather wasn't that great.	Yeah, they have some very high buildings there. Just like in every big city I've been to. Nice photo though.
That's a place we passed when walking downtown, which took us about 25 minutes.	Don't ask for details... I don't know.
Ain't this church beautiful? It's famous too... I don't remember the name though.	Un cheval! We did not take a ride.
Believe it or not, this is inside the Casino de Montréal ! It's one of the world-famous casinos (more than 3000 slot machines). I have also been to the world's largest casino, Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut (more than 5500 slots).	Every city has it's own Chinatown. Montréal is no exception.
Not the love parade but some kind of christmas parade (even before Thanksgiving!). Look, Santa (or however they call him) is waving at us.	That's three of us, with le stade Olympique et le Biodome in the background. You have seen that before on a postcard.
Another picture from the parade...	...and another one.