Thursday 22nd June – Saying farewell to our last North American guests

Last morning on our Montreal campsite

We managed to reach the Newmans’ hotel for 1140am.  It was lovely and sunny for Ray and Ann’s last day of holiday.  We drove to the Olympic Park and found lots of parking spaces enabling us to take a double-length spot for $24 right by the insectarium and botanical gardens we aimed to visit. 

First stop, the insectarium with plenty of creepy crawlies to see… but most of them dead, sadly:

Bug collage....

Ray braved handling one of the giant live ones:

Despite the tempting offer of various insect-based culinary delights, we opted to head back to the RV for lunch.  Simon and I also used the opportunity to book up the next three nights for the RV.  This was especially challenging for Simon who managed to book us a campsite in Quebec despite a significant language barrier!

 

 

The botanical gardens were beautiful.  We wandered through interlinked greenhouses (left) before wandering across to view the 1976 Olympic stadium:

 

Returning to see more stunning gardens containing sculptures and water features (leading to numerous photo opportunities!), we strolled the scenic route back to the RV. 

Antisocial woodpecker...

 

Sadly, at 545pm it was time to head to the International Airport where we said our farewells as we dropped the Newmans off as close to their departure gate as possible at 630pm.

From there we drove straight to our booked site just south-east of Montreal, arriving at 720pm. It was a PA site for only $16 and they sold homemade pies, which was an unexpected bonus as we had nothing much left to eat on the RV.

Back to just the two of us, the usual evening routine of dinner followed by a photo and blogging catch-up – with some TV for the first time in what felt like weeks.