Toronto to Montreal

Toronto to Montreal (your in the Land of Oz)
We left Toronto and its busy freeway system and traffic for the east and Montreal. Paralleling Lake Ontario for some time we finally made it to the St Lawrence River. All laws well and then we crossed the line into Quebec Canada. As you may know Quebec is Canada’s French speaking province. All of the rest of Canada has signs in English with French subtitles such as Exit- Sorite. or Stop- Arete. Needless to say this makes travel rather easy for the non linguist in either language. Here in Quebec they have only French and for those of you that do not speak French well this is a real adventure in highway driving.
Another seemingly small surprise is that when you cross the line is that the Freeway you were on 401 Fwy has now changed to the 20 Fwy you are still on the same road but now you must acquaint yourself with a new set of numbers and you did not change your map from the Ontario map to the Quebec map.
As Bev said “we are in a different country”. Well we have been in a different country for some time we were just all on the same que card.
The next thing that you are well aware of is everyone is speaking French. It is somewhat attuned to going to Mexico for the first time and knowing no Spanish and then you need help for directions or something else and the people you encounter look at you as if you are a Martian.
Well we did make it to a campsite just across from the St Lawrence River and we are now about 35 miles outside the city. We will move to a campground closer to the city for sightseeing but as you can imagine none of them are within the city proper because of the congestion. I just hope that we can find a parking garage for the Jeep as that was a small nightmare in Toronto.
The weather has been great the last week with sunny skies and nice days with some chill at night but not bad. Last night we found that there is something wrong with the generator so I will have to see to fixing it or having it fixed. We have not had to rely on it too much but as we pass out of the East I know that it will be needed.
So today it is onto looking at the old city and where General Wolf Beat the French General to claim Canada for the British on the Plains of Abraham, after climbing the Cliffs of Mount Royal.
Montreal is located in the St Lawrence River and is on an island so that we must traverse several bridges to get to it. I hope that this is not foreboding in a large RV with a toad vehicle.

1 Notre Dame outside
2 Hall of Justice (courts)
3 Notre Dame inside
4 Notre Dame at night
5 Street scene