Day: April 15, 2025

We got in yesterday afternoon after a long but mostly uneventful flight. Got to the hotel, where Ben went full-on 4-in-a-bed inspector. It’s OK. It’s very basic but clean and serves it’s primary purpose. We had a quick catch up with Nat then tried to stay up as long as possible but didn’t make it past 9. Jetlag still kicked my ass as I was up at 4am this morning.

We went for breakfast, did some shopping and had sushi for lunch. I’m aghast at how annoying, aggressive and prevalent tipping has become in Montréal. It’s everywhere. I mean, if I’m getting good service, fine but not at a sushi shop where I’m literally picking a tray out of a fridge and taking it to the till…. I’m also so somewhat dismayed and saddened at the astounding number of vagrants everywhere. I mean, Berry was always a bit dodgy but now it’s full-on grimy and at times uncomfortable.

I’m also happy that I managed to get my Revolut card working. The physical card is a Maestro which should in theory work but didn’t yesterday when I tried it several times. The virtual one I put in G-pay happily does it’s thing so I now have access to my Canada funds.

Gab pinged Ben to see if he wanted to go out but in the end we went to Nat’s for dinner and we spend the evening playing exploding kittens.