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Now that's what I call history. How very cool!!
Smart move favoring the patissierie for lunch.....
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I figured out what you'd pick for dessert as soon as I saw the pictures. You lunch looks very good, too.
Interesting pictures from the museum. Things like that are so interesting. In downtown Cleveland there are whole sections of the old city under the present city. Some of the roads are actually bridges. Unfortunately you can;t see much.
Liz
More great views on your river cruise. I have also seen Expo '67 but it was several years after it back in the 70's. I remember that American pavilion and taking a monorail ride with my parents here. Brings back memories!
The museum was pretty amazing with the history of the city. Good thing you continued. Not sure if I like the idea of an open air sewer! Looks like you made the right choice for lunch!
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Great pictures from the underground tour. That's a shame that many people from your tour missed out on it. Lunch and dessert looked delicious. There was never a doubt in my mind that you were going to be getting the macarons!
I am finally caught up. I was so behind as I have read in over a month here.
Your trip looks great. So sorry about the fall you had. That is awful.
Now the tours you take, do the offer English versions or are they doing it in French and English so all can understand? When we went to the Montreal area ( a couple of times for Tractor Pulling) we had a lot of issues finding English speaking people. We were at an Expo each time and some did and some didn't or at least pretended they couldn't. It always left a bad taste in my mouth. The hotel we always stayed at was friendly enough but everywhere else people were pretty rude. Each time I went I couldn't wait to get back into English speaking land. LOL.
I have never had any interest to go back to those areas because of those experiences we had.
I love Canada and have never had a problem travelling there (I can speak some French and respect the fact that Quebec is French speaking. ) I guess I was confused by your remarks. Were you in a French speaking or bilingual ( New Brunswick) province. If you were in Quebec, the official language is French so I don't know why you were bothered that people did not speak English to you.
Sorry, it left a bad taste, but I would no longer expect to have people speak to me in English in Quebec than in Mexico or France (or Spain or China and so on).
To me, one of Quebec's charms is it's language. And when my kids were young they always loved New Brunswick because of it's bilingualism
I figured out what you'd pick for dessert as soon as I saw the pictures.
How well you know me!
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You lunch looks very good, too.
Interesting pictures from the museum. Things like that are so interesting. In downtown Cleveland there are whole sections of the old city under the present city. Some of the roads are actually bridges. Unfortunately you can;t see much.
Liz
More great views on your river cruise. I have also seen Expo '67 but it was several years after it back in the 70's. I remember that American pavilion and taking a monorail ride with my parents here. Brings back memories!
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The museum was pretty amazing with the history of the city. Good thing you continued. Not sure if I like the idea of an open air sewer!
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. Your lunch sounds delicious!!
Not sure if I like the idea of an open air sewer! 
Looks like you made the right choice for lunch! 
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