53. Things to do in MONTREAL - Climb the steps of Mount Royal!

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This week on the show something a
little different. We're in Montreal, as

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we were last week and next week, and also in episode ten. If

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Montreal is a subject that interests you, check out those episodes. This week,

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we're off to Mount Royal. Every
time I go to Montreal, I

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do this. I climb Mount Royal, lots and lots and lots and lots

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and lots of stairs. As you're
about to hear, Then when you get

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to the top, there is a
beautiful view, and then I like to

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run and there's a nice downhill.
Now you'll hear how out of shape I

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was on this particular day. Oh
my, but a lot of running.

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In this episode, we're visiting Mount
Royal. Do you like stairs or so

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you've come to the right place.
Welcome to Mount Royal. My son and

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I are making the climb, and
normally I come in by the football stadium.

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There's a nice general winding path until
you come to one big staircase for

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our hotels over bun McGill University.
So while we started at a higher elevation,

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we now seem to be going up
the stairs. I remember already cooked

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and I will have left and look
for more stairs. Well, Unfortunately,

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we have found more stairs. These
aren't awful. These are like three at

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a time with landings. But okay, now we found the big stairs.

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I was looking for somebody's gotten ten
years older. Let's count here six to

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a landing. It's twenty more.
Say it's twenty six already, lest count

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another twenty five or fifty one.
I guess here it was a big one.

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Now I feel fifty two. I'm
gonna shaw a thirty year old one.

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Oh oh man, I'm sure to
counts us a little off. But

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around one hundred twenty five I had
to wipe my face too. I didn't

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bring my sweatdawl, you're fast.
I caught one fifty. Oh yeah,

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selfie, I'll get it. I'd
selfie perfect. So have a good day.

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I thought we were done. I
didn't see the more stairs. Oh

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my two eighty one and like former
five more flights. More's dance felt the

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friends. I counted three hundred seventy
three. My old apartment building was thirteen

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per floor. Who's gonna math p
four eight three seventy three by thirteen is

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wide twenty seven? Something like that? Forty eight point twenty eight point six

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flights of stairs. But now our
reward. I made it to the overlooks

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and beatle review the good news that
it's all down now unless we go up

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there. But that's not quite twenty
seven flights of stairs. So here at

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the landing is the overlook the building
behind me. I know there's bathrooms at

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a soda machine back there for previous
trips, but that's not why you're here.

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Is they're overlooking all right. I'm
gonna stand and I'm facing the sun

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at about nine am, so let's
call that east if I turn my shoulders

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to ten o'clock and here the Saint
Lawrence, some mountains off in the distance,

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downtown Montreal, which by the way, has just gotten so much cleaner,

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and the last time I was here, and to the right just more

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of the called the plains of Montreal. Just a really fantastic view and worth

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the twenty seven flights of stairs.
There's a dedication plaque. On October two,

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fifteen thirty five, Jacques Cartier,
discover of Canada, climb this mountain

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under the guidance of the Indians of
the village, and impressed with the beauty

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of landscape displayed before his eyes,
he gave it the name of Mountain Oil,

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from which the city of Montreal took
its name. All right, what

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we're gonna do now? It's one
of my favorite things. It's the gentle

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downhill on Mount Royal. You've done
all the work and you get this free

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rotten let's do it. Not passing
on my right never night. I'm never

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quite sure what this is. Some
sort of pond. I'm a lake house.

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Last trip I did up here four
or five years ago. I did

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all this. I think it was
in a construction and reconstruction last time.

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Looks quiet over there today, but
yeah, nice pond and lake house.

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Nobody out on the water today.
This is a beautiful spot. Sender sit

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past me. He can be quite
the walking start. I'll never catch him

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now. Looking in a car,
Science says, I got another two or

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three kilometers to go, let's do
this. I think this course got longer.

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I had no hips. I'm going
to keep hearing my wife's voice in

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my head saying, oh, I
think you're trying. It's so funny dealing

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this week. Everybody else doing get
isn't better state than you actually feeling the

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endorphins. Finally, thanks endorphins,
Where were you a mile ago. Somebody

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definitely added a couple of thousand feet
of this mountains truss gotten way longer.

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So my friend Rory and I,
you have this thing called the running champion.

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So if you run somewhere the snap
at him selfie, you can declare

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yourself the running champion of a police
who's got the most mileage of the location

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of wins which Rory is the running
champion of Montreal. But I'm going to

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send him a selfie. I declare
myself the running champion of Montreal Math's division.

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It's actually a good motivator who used
to do weekend running champions And believe

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me, I'd go out for an
extra mile just to claim the made up

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title, and anywhere I'd go to
a location I knew he wasn't going to

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God, I would claim it.
My favorite is I did one mile in

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the park in Versailles, declared myself
the champion of There your move, Rory,

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here's the final stretch. Let's do
this. How was it good?

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Top half? I couldn't get my
full lungs because of the milk from the

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ice. Coffe usually have violin milk
there, so I couldn't like top off.

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And then my hips were killed me. So I suck in general,

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but I love it. Yeah,
definitely good. Mount Royal is really a

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fantastic place. You do have to
climb the stairs, there's no other way

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up there, but you don't have
to run down. The view is absolutely

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worth it and it's a nice place
to just take some pictures, some selfies

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your Instagram, to walk around and
even at the bottom the grounds are very

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nice. It's a wonderful place in
downtown Montreal. If you missed last week,

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we hit Chinatown and the waterfront and
the Basilica. Next week we're going

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to check out Mile End and grab
some food. So that's a lot of

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fun. So again, if Montreal'll
interest you, check out episode ten last

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