This morning we slept in slightly…you know, until about 6. Eventually we got up and got ready and walked a couple of blocks to breakfast at Le Fabrique de Bagel, which was in a small mall of sorts.
I got a cranberry chocolate bagel with cream cheese and Nick got a breakfast sandwich on a bagel. We both quickly decided that a cranberry chocolate bagel is brilliant and the cream cheese here was amazing, but Montreal bagels are not for us. They’re almost…sticky.
We finished eating as much of breakfast as we were going to and then checked out a piece of the Berlin Wall that was in this mall, before heading back to the hotel.
Back at the hotel we packed up the room, and brought everything down to the car so that we could get the car out of the garage before handing in our keys. Once I had pulled the car around front, I went in to check out and then we hit the road. I think we checked out a little after 9.
It was an uneventful and dare I say it, easy, drive to the border. The line to enter the States moved slowly, but it really wasn’t that long, and pretty soon we were playing 20 questions with US Customs. We passed the test here too, and were welcomed home.
From the border it was probably about an hour to our next destination: Cold Hollow Cider Mill. This is a favorite stop of ours in the Stowe area. We grabbed a delicious lunch of sandwiches (on homemade bread) in their cafe, and then explored the cider mill store for a bit. Because it was a week day (we’re usually here on weekends) we got to see them pressing apples to make cider, so that was cool. We picked up some of their cider donuts (in maple sugar…winning!), and I tried to get a frozen hot chocolate with maple creamee, but their frozen hot chocolate machine was frozen, so I ended up with an apple cider slush with maple creamee. This was very good.
Having gotten our fill of cider, we got back in the car for the roughly 2 hour drive the rest of the way home. It was uneventful and we were home in plenty of time to collect the dogs from the local pet resort and get ready for the rest of the week.
Final thoughts:
Well, it wasn’t New Orleans, but we had fun.
If you go to Montreal and don’t eat well, you did something wrong.
We still don’t like cities.
I’m not necessarily in a hurry to go back to Montreal, because I felt like we got the gist of it, but I would like to go back sometime during terrace season. I love outdoor dining and it seems like they have an amazing outdoor dining scene in Old Montreal.
I would recommend the hotel we stayed at without hesitation.
The Biodome alone was worth the trip.
If you’re ever in the Stowe, VT area, go to Cold Hollow Cider.
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