Something that catches my attention,
and I want to stop here...
It is on the bathrooms issue.
As you are seeing, it is a unisex bathroom.
Anyone can enter, man and woman.
What do you think? Is the idea good?
Or can it be seen to do other things?
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Dear friends, how are you?
The adventures below zero continue here in Montreal.
And I want to greet you!
I want to start this video here at the hotel where I am staying.
And I want to start right here
because this society has had to get used to living temperatures below zero.
And, of course, to develop an ordinary life.
Life cannot be stopped by that.
You have to go to the bank.
You have to go to the movies.
You have to shop.
And I'm going to show you in this tour the most impressive places in Montreal
where people have even had to build underground
so they can have a normal life.
And that these low temperatures do not represent a problem.
I am Oscar Alejandro.
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Well, that said...
Montreal, Canada, here we are you and I, and my army of adventurers
to discover how you have a great life.
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Well, so is... My dear adventurers!
But before starting this tour of Montreal
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Juan and I are currently doing one of the most emblematic walks
when you comes to Montreal
which is climbing the Mont-Royal, right?
Climb it on foot without bus or car assistance.
The Mont-Royal is this mountain that is located just behind the city,
or in the middle of the city.
What is true is that to do so you have to have enough lung, right?
- This... If you like smoke cigars. - I could not.
You have to train a few days before, right?
- Fortunately I am not, are you? - Me neither.
So I think we will be able to reach the top... Let's go!
We will arrive... I don't know how we are going to get there.
- But rest assured that we will arrive. - We will arrive even crawling, but we will arrive.
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- How's that going? - With pauses, right?
Little by little, slowly but surely.
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I am sure that all those stairs that we have just climbed are worth it...
Especially when we have this view of Mont-Royal, right?
- Dear Juan... - Mont-Royal.
The Mont-Royal.
What I do feel is that at this time the words are left over.
It is a spectacular place to take a nice picture,
to upload it to Instagram,
to place it in the portrait holder of your house...
Send it to your grandfather there in Colombia...
In Venezuela.
And simply enjoy!
As for example, at this time.
Now, what's on top of Mont-Royal?
Well, precisely this viewpoint...
So not only you can have the opportunity to take your picture there.
However, there is also this square...
This place where you can simply share, chat for a while...
Appreciate the view!
It is an impressive place!
it simply runs out of words anything I can say.
This feeling of freedom...
Of triumph!
And to enjoy the beauty of life.
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Well, now I have come to the place
that I have most wanted to know about all of Montreal.
And it is the underground city.
This metropolis is known throughout the world
for having the largest number of underground floors built of...
Shopping centers, pharmacies, supermarkets, restaurants, shops...
Of everything you can imagine!
And that is exactly below us right now.
As is that elevated mall that you are seeing there,
and just as you see that church...
What appears to be a subway entrance,
an underground station...
What is found there is the entrance of one of the shopping centers
of the underground city.
And yes, as I am telling you...
One of several underground shopping centers
that the city of Montreal has.
What do you think if we begin to discover?
We enter through those doors
and enter the subsoil of the city of Montreal.
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Well, as you can imagine...
You need a map to be located beneath the earth.
And it is the first thing we find in this mall
called "Promenades Cathédrale".
Well, you have to get used to the French language.
Everything is in this language...
Vous etes ici - "You are here",
it doesn't take much to find out what it means.
And logically there are all kinds of establishments...
As for example, this franchise that is "Econofitness"...
As I have been told, it is one of the most economical gyms in the whole country.
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As you can imagine, an underground mall has no other difference,
other than you can't see the street.
But what it is extremely striking...
It's that underground shopping centers connect underground with others...
For example, we are in the "Promenades Cathédrale"
but there is the indication that if we want to continue there is the "Centre Eaton".
And as it is an underground city it logically connects with the subway
and the only thing that separates us from the mall to the subway are these doors.
They move, as you are watching.
And that we can go through without any problem.
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And we are already at the Montreal metro station.
And there is no need to go to the surface, and we do not have to endure the cold.
Very interesting!
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Clearly there we see that the subway station
where we are at the moment...
It's McGill station.
On the surface is the popular McGill University,
which is what gives the name to the sector where this station is located.
But it's literal, you get out of the turnstiles
and right there, underground...
Without going out to the street are the doors of the mall...
Which is the same one we were in recently.
Of course, that in the given case we want to enter the Centre Eaton de Montréal.
Forgive me my French that is not good.
Here I am, a Latino trying to do his best.
Aneth is accompanying me to make this video,
and as you can imagine, I don't know much about the city of Montreal...
Here underground, at the Mcgill subway station...
What do you consider what we should know about the underground city?
Here there are only shopping centers, a lot stores...
- And where do you want to go right now? - Let's go to the other mall now.
Okay.
Which connects with the Eaton Center and is called Montreal Trust.
Montreal Trust.
Don't we have to climb to the surface?
Well, let's walk, right?
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I had to take off my jacket because it certainly isn't needed in here.
There is a good temperature.
We enter the Centre Eaton...
And if we wanted to enter the subway,
the door says perfectly that it is the McGill station subway.
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Just entering the Centre Eaton, here underground
we find something quite particular...
Let's see, I'm going to give you two seconds
so you can notice what I want to show you.
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It's a starbucks, right?
But it says "Café Starbucks".
Obviously in French.
It is as if it were necessary to say that it is a coffee.
My friend planeta Juan told me that there is a law here in Quebec that says
that any foreign franchise that has a name that is not from this country...
It have to tell in this language what it is.
However, I think it's like a bit obvious.
Everyone on the planet knows that Starbucks is a coffee.
But hey, each country has its laws and you have to respect them, right?
For those in doubt of the extension of the underground city of Montreal...
Well, here it is.
What you see here is the green line of the city subway.
Each season...
Here we are at McGill station.
This is the Peel station, the Guy-Concordia...
Here is the Place-des-Arts.
And all these blue squares
are the shopping centers that are interconnected underground.
For example, we are here at the Centre Eaton, as I told you.
But next to it is the Place Montreal Trust...
A Carrefour is next.
There is an Alliance Center...
I mean... Supermarket, banks.
They told me that here is the cinema...
And it has a map
to identify which are the shopping centers
that communicate with each other underground.
For example, this complex that is here,
does not connect underground with this other.
You have to go from the Peel station to the Guy-Concordia station.
But we can know that from the green metro line
we can cross below ground...
Even with the other subway line that is the red one.
And with all these other shopping centers
that are underground.
That is, if we interpret all this and take it to real life,
we could spend a whole day underground of the city of Montreal
without having to go up,
and without having to freeze from the cold,
as for example at this time of the year.
Tell me if this is not surprising!
I do not stay here.
We will continue touring to see if we find something else curious.
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We are at lunchtime
and we are going to eat the typical Canadian dish.
The poutine.
I'm going to explain what this brings...
Because it looks a bit confusing really...
Visually speaking.
What I can tell you is that this one has chicken and the other does not.
We are going to experiment to see
what the typical Canadian dish tastes like.
In essence it is like chips and what else does this bring?
- It's bring... - Cheese, french fries and chicken.
It is worth mentioning that you can order it with whatever you want.
It comes with bakon.
It comes with chicken.
It comes with chorizo.
- It comes with everything. - It's versatile.
If you want it spicy, you order it spicy.
- If you don't want it spicy, so... - Very good.
- But in essence it has to have gravy and cheese. - And Cheese.
And then whatever you want.
Well, done... Bon appetit!
Visually it is like a potato chip salad.
Of course, you have to stir it...
Let's see... 1, 2 and 3.
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It's good!
Approved!
When you come to Canada eat a poutine.
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Hey! Something that catches my attention a lot...
And I want to stop here on the bathrooms issue.
When you are in a mall like this.
You looking for the men symbol,
And the women symbol.
But as you are seeing, the men and women symbol at the moment is united...
And I'm going to show you what it's all about,
and how is this matter, at least in this mall in Canada.
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As you are seeing, it is a unisex bathroom.
Yes, anyone can enter.
Man and woman.
And it's a little crazy because although it's normal.
I like the idea.
You are not accustomed, in this case,
to see men and women leaving these rooms.
Logically, there are no urinals.
Well, and if we go out, logically, everyone can wash their hands
regardless of your sex...
What do you think? Is the idea good?
Or can it be seen to do other things?
In this shot we can perfectly appreciate that we are underground.
What I'm pointing up there is the entrance of the surface...
Boulevard De Maisonneuve.
But, down there, is the subway entrance.
And, down here, there is another floor...
All this is underground!
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In this mall...
This is the third one we are already touring of the underground city.
It is where we can get an idea of ​​the magnitud
of how many floors we are underground.
What you see up there is the surface.
And these elevators, which we see next to this mall,
do not rise but fall...
That is, we can count approximately 1, 2, 3, 4.
We are on the 4th floor underground.
And the last floor down is the 5th floor underground.
Without a doubt... Amazing!
It's different!
Interesting, don't you think?
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And on the lowest floor of this mall
we found the "Dollarama",
which is the cheapest store in Canada.
It is similar to "Family Dollar" or "Dollar Tree",
which is what we find in the US.
But see, exactly 5 floors underground
there is this food fair.
The second or third we have seen on this underground tour
under the streets of Montreal.
As you can imagine, in these shopping centers
we found all the franchises in the world that are very famous.
There we saw "Sara".
There are also other local brands, such as this one called "Stokes".
Or this one called "La Source".
This is how I imagine it sounds!
I put a French accent...
You know, it's Starbucks...
Now, continuing with our tour...
Here we already realize that there is the other entrance
of the other shopping center.
Or, rather, this indication says that the next thing is the La Maison Simons store.
And the other sign says...
Also through this corridor we connect with the Peel subway station.
And all this without having to surface and not die of cold.
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I love it!
Because when you change from one mall to another...
You see the differences even with the design, and...
For example, I was getting a lot of attention this store
that says clearly, "Simons".
What is Simons about?
It is a department store.
- It's like Maxxi or Sears? - Yes.
Or J.C. Penney? Or Targert?
- Like Macy’s? - It's more like Macy’s.
But we continue traveling the underground of the city, right?
Exactly!
Now, I am realizing that on this tour, the hallway is over...
It's like there are no more shopping centers.
But there are two exits, right?
Well, because what we have in front Oscar and me is a cinema.
- A cinema? - Normally we are used to only one floor.
Two floors...
This is a completely cinema floor...
Where you have movies, IMAX...
On the other side there is the subway, isn't it?
There is the subway,
so you can enter directly through the subway...
- You can access by the surface. - And without going out to the frozen snow.
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Of course, the corridor ends
because we have access to the other mall, the other shopping center,
which is called "Es Cours Mont-Royal".
And there we also have the sign
that we can easily reach the other subway station,
which is the Peel station.
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And here we are already at the subway station...
It's a radical change, but it's perfect because everything communicates...
We already know it, below ground.
And I love it!
I mean, I love it...
Literally you go out from the mall and there we see the subway rails.
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Really, I feel that this could be endless and one would never know it
because online this is already the fourth consecutive mall underground.
This shopping center is called "Les Cours Mont-Royal.
We continue with my bad French.
And the peculiarity is that... It seems like luxury, right?
A shopping center that has a very particular architecture.
- There are no expensive stores. - There are no expensive stores!
- An elegant, rich and simple shopping center. - Yes.
But, right now we are going to the subway and I think there is the door.
- Without going to the surface. - The best.
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Next station, McGill.
And I understand that this is one of the most modern wagons of the Montreal metro.
And it really feel...
It is quite beautiful.
It has good lighting.
Is it clean...
And it feels like it's new.
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This is the Champ-de-Mars station...
And friends, there is the outside below zero.
Guys, are you ready to go out again to freezing temperatures?
The doors open.
And look at all the wind out there.
Honestly, I think is a very good idea this thing of ​​the underground city
because returning to the reality of the Canadian cold is complicated.
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I tell you that I loved meeting Montreal.
And I hope you also loved this video.
Canada is a country that can definitely leave you in love.
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