Montreal Day 3

Thursday 8/7/2025

Today’s schedule was a Steve and Peggy day. We picked Montreal’s botanical garden and insectarium. Both are fabulous, the latter is more out of the ordinary, after all lots of cities have botanical gardens. They are located on the same property literally in the shadow of the olympic stadium built for the 1976 games.

That’s the stadium tower looming over their heads, the biodome is on the left side. They are looking toward the botanical garden. The Botanical gardens are both inside in greenhouses, like the picture below, or outdoors. A variety of garden themes are present from herbs and vegetables to bromeliads. We had only scratched the surface in about 2.5 hrs when it was time to go to the insectarium (they assign times to prevent it from being mobbed with people).

The insectarium had numerous displays like these three…….

The grand finale of the insectarium was the butterfly room. One of the best we have seen it was filled with a variety of mostly tropical butterflies. After a nice lunch at the gardens we went back to regroup before supper at Pub Wolf and Watchman, very good food, and they allowed dogs. And then we walked around observing the considerable night life going on in the downtown port of Montreal area.

We came across these two opposing statues in the square representing British snobbery and French aloofness. Here they are, taken at night….

With their noses in the air so they can look down on Notre Dame cathedral in the case of the Englishman, and an important English bank in the case of the French woman, neither is aware the dog they hold are bonkers each for the other. She holds a poodle, he a bulldog. Kevin and Jackie doing their best poses beneath.