Montreal on My Mind

It’s probably because Barb and I just came back from Paris last week that I have Montreal on my mind right now.

While my suitcase sits in my bedroom still only partially unpacked from our recent vacation, I’m already thinking about our next Excellent Adventure this fall to Eastern Canada.
This, of course, is all fairly normal as we often have quite a bit of planning overlap between trips but Montreal happens to be a city that I am really looking forward to.

Our Eastern Canada Adventure is going to be a driving trip from Halifax to Montreal spread out over a period of about 3 weeks. While it is technically possible to drive the approximate 1200 km in couple of days taking the major highways, we have no intention of taking such a quick route. Spending lots of time exploring the small towns in between Halifax and Montreal is really what this trip will be about.

However, after all is said and done, I can’t help but keep thinking about Montreal.

Part of the reason for this is that I was reading the newspaper yesterday and it was the 40th anniversary of Expo 67 which was held in Montreal in, as you might imagine, 1967. I was pretty young in 1967 (not even in school yet) but I actually remember going to Expo 67.

One of the things that I cannot help but think about when I think about Expo 67 is the theme song called Ca-na-da that was (from what I was told) hugely popular at the time. Well, maybe hugely popular is a bit overstating it.

A link to the original music video can be found here.

For those of you listening to this song and are dying of embarrassment, join the club. 🙂

The Montreal of the 60’s doesn’t really exist anymore and but spending several days there on our trip this fall is something that I am very much looking forward to. Lots of planning is still yet to be done for the details of our itinerary for this Adventure and that will continue over the next month or so.

Baden