Montreal

We decided to go for a slight detour into Canada given that we were so close. Montreal is a great city -- its got a nice urban feeling but isn't so big to become unmanageable. Went on a tour of the city which was tremendously boring.

On the first night we went to a restaurant called la rapiere. The food was truly superb and although the setting was formal the waiters were great and totally non stuffy which is always nice. We got out for about £100 for the two of us with wine and I would say that is about half of what the same meal would have cost in London (with the bonus of some nice service).