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Yesterday we went sightseeing in the old part of Montréal, and the old port. The buildings here are really beautiful, and are a nice change after (almost) only seeing the high-rise concrete jungle that is downtown for a week. After walking for a long time, we decided we'd go to the Olympic park to see the Biodôme and the botanical gardens.

The Biodôme is nice, but small and quite boring. It's basically just a zoo divided into 4 parts (tropical forest, temperate forest, the oceans and the antarctic). In every zone, you'll see a few plants and animals native to a place like that, and lots of small facts (on little signs). It's a GREAT place to take pictures (which I will post when I'm back home).

UPDATE! Thanks to the very generous (or just very stupid) neighbors of the hostel, the pictures have been posted.

Yesterday spacey and I arrived in Montreal, after a 1-hour flight from Schiphol (Amsterdam) to London Heathrow and a 6-hour flight from there to Montreal.

We met Mithrandir and Simira at Schiphol airport, where they were transferring to a direct plane to Montreal, and we met a LOT of Ubuntu-people while waiting on Heathrow.

Long flights like this are BORING. The first hours are OK, you watch a movie, fiddle aroud a bit with your laptop.. but after that it's just a long wait, and watching the map on the entertainment console doesn't help very much. The boredom was made worse by the fact that I couldn't really sleep, as it was evening in Montreal when we arrived, and I wanted to sleep at the hostel to avoid most of the jet lag ;)

Today is Ubuntu Love Day, with talks from lots of people about lots of things: Kubuntu, Edubuntu, the inner workings of the community, etc. -- I'll post some pictures and "moviegotchis" later.