After multiple, surprisingly awkward, sessions of beer pong, we managed to find ourselves challenging our upstairs neighbors for the neighborhood title. Needless to say, after 6 hours of playing, the championship games was abruptly cancelled due to technical difficulties. But here is the deal, in Finland we have this thing called "viinaturisti", which is pretty much used to describe finnish tourists around the globe. The morning after, me and Ville officially identified ourselves as "viinaturistit". We're supposed to be here for 5 months? we've been here a week and I feel like I'm 20 years older. Remember kids, studying is hard work.
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| The Ultimate Fratboy collection |
During the past week, it has become more and more clear to us, that the Canadian price levels were not as low as they were supposed to be. If we keep this up, in 4 months, we're either going to perish or we'll have to prematurely cash in Ville's 401k, whichever comes first really. On Friday we visited terraces bonsecours, a local club located in the old port of Montréal. Now, if you like paying $10 for a cup of beer and going through ceaseless airport security checks just to get your drink knocked out of your hand by some random stoner going apeshit on the "dancefloor", the place is for you.
Also during this past week, we've finished our research on Canadian beers. Conclusion: they're all horrible.
Now for the serious part....
So far Montréal has been an extremely friendly place, even the cashiers at grocery stores are nice, and mind you, nice is an attribute rarely found in Scandinavia.
The city itself is a beautiful place, a sort of U.S meets Europe, and exploring it is relatively easy, as the subway system is extremely simple. But hey, what can we say really? We've been here for what? 9 days? Its not like we know everything about the city. Funfact #1, In Montréal, the highest building (le 1000) is as high as Mont Royal itself, the mountain that the city was named after. For me, that seems like a much better measuring stick to how long a building should be, instead of the typical Finnish 3-story concrete block from the 70's.
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| Le 1000 |
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| View of Montréal from the Olympic Stadium Tower |
Our studies start next Monday, until then, we'll keep on exploring the city and the culture in order to be actually able to write something relatively useful in here.
Good places in Montréal
- Restaurant/bar Les 3 Brasseurs, relatively cheap and good stuff. Poutine burger ftw right? This bar is also a microbrewery, which makes the dining experience unique.
- Montréal rapids ride, Saute-Moutons. A thrilling jetboat ride where you get pretty much slapped in the face by 3 metre tall waves. Nothing wakes you up better than getting 10 litres of water thrown in your face with extreme force.
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| Saute-Moutons |
Dat Fashion
Since we featured the cat shirt on the first blog entry, we will have to continue to supply the readers with hipster-esque clothing. So here's a penguin shirt Ville bought....
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| Penguin Shirt from Urban outfitters |
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