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#Schummer14: Day 8-10 recap of Summer of Schnyder ~ Montreal
Three days isn’t enough time to do everything for first-time visitors in Montreal, especially when you’re staying at a hotel so comfortable you want to spend time there, too. (See my post about the Ritz-Carlton Montreal.) We had two partial days and one full day in Montreal. Since we didn’t have a lot of time, I booked a five-hour bicycle tour called Montreal Highlights. It was a small group and through an outfitter called Fitz & Follwell. We don’t do a lot of group tours but we really enjoyed this one – we covered a lot of area on the bikes and learned a lot from our guides. And as…
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#Schummer14: Summer of Schnyder settles in at the Ritz-Carlton Montreal
I’m able to walk into a Residence Inn by Marriott like I own the place. I hand the front desk attendant our Marriott card, they have our preferences for King bed and quiet room on file, I know about the free breakfast in the morning, let’s get our bottled water in the room’s full-size fridge and the cooler’s ice system in the freezer so it’s ready to use for tomorrow’s portion of the road trip. Driving up to the Ritz-Carlton in Montreal was intimidating. I wondered if my t-shirt and shorts from an afternoon spent at a nature museum would suffice or if we should stop and change before pulling…
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#Schummer14: Day 7 recap of Summer of Schnyder ~ Toronto to Thousand Islands
After dropping our friends Charlie & Kim off at the airport to fly home to New York just before lunch, we left Toronto to head toward Montreal. It would have been an easy trip to drive the whole route that afternoon, but we decided to stop along the way at the Thousands Islands (or 1000 Islands) area and spend one night outside of Canada’s two largest cities. We could have explored this area a lot more than we did (observation tower, hiking, etc.) but we were pretty wiped out after a lot of walking and constant activity in Toronto. So we opted for a peaceful boat tour of the…
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#Schummer14: Day 4-6 recap Summer of Schnyder
We don’t have full, unlimited access to the Internet while in Canada, so I decided to use that as a good excuse not to post for a couple of days! We had wifi at the condo in Toronto so I did take some time each night to post a few photos from the day on Instagram. While it’s nice to unplug sometimes, it’s amazing how many times during the day walking around a city I want to grab my phone and look up directions, the history of something, restaurant reviews, etc. Day 4 through Day 6 were spent in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I’d visited the city (Canada’s largest city…
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#Schummer14: Day 3 recap Summer of Schnyder
Today’s post brought to you by Lee Canada is the place to go to learn about the things that died in America’s educational system along with some interesting quirks. It’s also a time to realize the advantages to living in Canada. You remember the metric system. Americans were able to discard those silly measurements like kilometers, litres, and Celsius back in the 70s. Canada never received the memo and still uses the metric system. The first speed limit sign I saw showed 100. Awesome, driving in Canada is going to be fun! But after metric translation, it was only 60 mph. Though I will say Canadians drive quite a bit…