For the third day in Montreal – and the last full day we spent here – we planned to start off with a city tour on an amphibious bus – a concept that I already knew from London. We went near the harbor with the subway, and then decided to walk the rest of the way. On the way, we passed by a fire station – right when there was an alarm and one of the trucks had to leave. A friendly firefighter then spontaneously invited us inside the station, showed us some things and told us about their working routine. He also complained about the fact that the city of Montreal does not want to spend any money on buying a medical unit for their fire station, so that they have to send a large truck even for small medical assistance.

We were underway quite early, so there were still some school busses underway – of course in the traditional north American yellow.

We had some time to spare before the tour would begin, so I looked at some of the buildings at the port. As I would later learn on the tour, these are actually the back sides of the buildings, with the “prettier” front sides facing inland.

We also crossed a seemingly uninteresting railway – which I later learned was actually the trans-Canadian railway which goes all the way from the west to the far east of the country.

Still having some time before the tour began, I set out to take some pictures of the architecture of Montreal, including a very interesting apartment block, the biodome and the port.

The trip was quite nice, very informative yet very relaxed. And there were a few good photo opportunities.

To finish the day, I visited the Mont Royal – a region of Montreal where “artists and hipsters” make up the majority of the population. Accordingly, it is a very comfortable and trendy region and probably the part of Montreal I would feel most comfortable living in.