Canada #37 Montréal
As we walked through the centre of Montréal on our first afternoon, we met a small green creature with a very broad smile. He was everywhere, on flags and banners, street corners and pedestals. Who was this cute little guy?
We’d arrived in Montréal in time for the last weekend of the annual Just for laughs Festival and our new green friend was Victor, the festival mascot.
We wandered through the Quartier des spectacles where comedians, acrobats, magicians and musicians, surrounded by appreciative audiences, caught our attention.
Later we joined the crowd on Rue St Catherine for the 21st annual Twin Parade. The theme of the parade was A Voyage through Space and we were soon seeing double, with pairs of aliens, astronauts and outer space creatures filling the street.
The parade wasn’t limited to twins. Triplets and even quadruplets were there, and age was no barrier as little ones joined much older participants, all wearing elaborate space age costumes.
With this as our introduction to Montréal, we knew we were going to have a lot of fun.
What fun. Always fascinated with twins, triplets etc. Love that parade.
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It was great fun watching them all and we had some cool conversations too.
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That does look like a fun start to your tour of Montreal!
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It really was a wonderful afternoon and we had some interesting conversations too.
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Isn’t it fun when one happens across such interesting events completely by chance? The photos from the parade are fascinating. I’ve never heard of anything like it.
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So many sets of twins! It was amazing to see them all and they were really enjoying themselves.
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What wonderful timing. Looks so colourful and like a lot of fun!
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Yes, weren’t we lucky. The young woman at the Tourist Information told us all about the festival and where to go and what to see.
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Love it when that happens.
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I thought he looked familiar! I love watching stand up comedy. I watch a lot of it on Netflix and it’s good becauseif you don’t really like someone, there are plenty of others to watch!
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True! There is a great selection on Netflix. We saw a couple of really great street performances.
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I am forwarding to my niece who is proud resident of that wonderful city.
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I hope she enjoys it. There will be several more Montreal posts, as we spent a few days there. It’s a beautiful city and we really enjoyed it.
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I’m sure all would love this day, great fun 🙂
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It was fun! There were so many twins and we loved their costumes, mostly hand made too.
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Love the twin parade! Though how you would tell the Darth Vaders we’re twins, I don’t know!
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This is true, but hopefully they really were.
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Or the ones on stilts!
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What a hoot! Twins is one thing, but then add the costumes, and it’s over the top. 🙂 When I was in high school, my two best friends were twins. 🙂
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It was amazing to see so many twins and the costumes were great. I always thought it would be great to have twins, until I had one baby and decided one at a time was plenty. 🙂
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What a great parade and how diverse. So good to get involved in something like that. Great photos.
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We were lucky that the Tourist Info girl told us about it and where to go to see it. We had so much fun talking with some of the participants.
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Those surprise events are great aren’t they? Love those unexpected occasions that just seem to occur.
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You got some great shots, Carol! Love the spacey folk, and the little girl in the green dress 🙂 🙂
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There are actually two little girls in that green dress Jo, like a two headed alien. You can just see the second one behind the closer girl. It’s all very cute.
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Good grief! 🙂 🙂
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That twin (and triplet and quadruple) parade looks like lots of fun. You got so many great shots – hard to do when people are in motion!
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It was fun, Cathy. Many of these photos were taken with my phone so it was a case of point and shoot and hope for the best. Thank you! 😊
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Wow, they turned out great considering they were from your phone. Sometimes phone photos are better than ones from a camera. 🙂
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I’ve never been to the Twin Festival – what fun! Will definitely look out for it. Great photos again.
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It’s great fun Susi! I hope you get to see it this year.
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This looks like a fun event! Some of the costumes are fabulous – they must have taken a lot of time to put together.
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Many of the costumes were hand made and they were so clever.
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I am always impressed by people’s imagination when making costumes.
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Very interesting happening! Thank You telling about it with photos.
Have a good day!
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It was a fun parade to watch.
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Looks like a wonderful parade – love parades for people-watching!
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It was fun to see all the different costumes and we had some great conversations.
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What an amazing sight to witness. The parade looks like so much fun. 😃
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It was fun, so many lookalikes. And I really enjoyed all the clever costumes.
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