Fondu...then Home

Our last night we spent in Montreal at a simultaneously pleasant but shady hotel near the train station. That evening we headed to La Banquise to eat some poutine, which is a messy pile of french fries, cheese curds, and gravy. There was a loud line out the door so we quickly abandoned that plan and went next door to Restaurant La Fonderie to have some excellent fondu instead:

In the morning we waited in the huge line for the Amtrak train back to NY.

Unlike the rainy trip in, the trip back was gorgeous and sunny with stunning scenery.

The train was continuously flushing herons up out of the wetlands and I tried to get some shots from the moving train, mostly in vain. This was my best result:

At a certain point the train changes engines and I had a chance to get out and get a few shots of the Amtrak crew: