Vegemighty!, travel plans, Oz culture

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Tabouli" <tabouli at u...> wrote:

<snip neat travel plans>

> Then hopefully up to Montreal to try out my French on the Canadians 
(always been curious about Montreal), and if I can, I'll slip in an 
LM Montgomery pigrimage to PEI.  Unless I strike it rich, I'll 
probably have to fly home from Montreal.
>
Ah, Montreal is my birthplace!  It is truly fabulous, but bear in 
mind that Quebecois French is very different from the European 
version, just like UK English and North American English differ.  But 
I'm sure you'll get by...I haven't been to Montreal for almost 10 
years now, so say hello to it for me.
 
>London (plus perhaps Cornwall>

OK, OK, I'm a 2-hour train ride from Paddington Station, but if you 
do come to London you *must* come west for a day!  Hopefully you and 
Rita will have solved the cat problem as we have 3 moggies, but if 
not we'll just dump the kids on DH and check out Bristol and Bath 
together :)  

As for Cornwall, you must go there as well, especially if you have an 
interest in Celtic history.  South Cornwall (the Penwith area) is 
simply littered with fogous, stone circles, and holy wells.  The 
weather is warm but can be wet (we're in England, after all) but it's 
worth getting a little damp.  We're going to have our first family 
holiday there at the beginning of February, though we'll be sticking 
to beaches and animal sanctuaries and such as the kids are still too 
young to get excited about stones in the middle of a field, and 
anyway David is almost 18 months old but still isn't walking yet.

By the way, I'd love to be attend one of your workshops!  But it'll 
be a while before we ever get to Australia...

Cheers!

Mary Ann :)