It's too hot here to write anything much, so I thought I'd just share this panorama I took yesterday while touring the Old City and port area with friends who were visiting us from New York. We walked out onto one of the long quays, stopping frequently to cool off inside the air-conditioned building that houses an IMAX theater and runs nearly the whole length of the quay. At the end there is a good view of the harbor and the St. Lawrence River; you can see the Pont Jacques Cartier in the background, some bateaux-mouches coming into dock, and the distinctive striped tents of Cirque du Soleil on the next wharf, set up as usual for their summer season at home in Montreal.
I'm curious - how many of you have been to a Cirque show somewhere in the world?
Nice shot, I wish we had walked out to that pier, though we walked past. I've been to a Cirque show here in Vancouver once, with two of our daughters. It was fantastic, so different from watching on television as we'd often done before.
I've noticed in the news about the heat wave in the east! We're in the beginning of one, but not quite so hot... yet!
Posted by: Marja-Leena | July 06, 2010 at 09:51 PM
I saw them in London some years ago - at the Albert Hall!! Stunning! Rather envying your heat, as the weather has disintegrated here and it's cool, grey and wet...
Posted by: Fire Bird | July 07, 2010 at 07:57 AM
The climate is very even here in Hawaii: never cold and never too hot.
Where we live there are no venues for big shows. We would have to fly to Honolulu to see things like the Cirque show.
Posted by: Hattie | July 07, 2010 at 03:05 PM
Oh those tents look so jaunty in that lovely setting. I haven't been to a Cirque du Soleil show in too long. But I guess there's no chance of them coming to Aberystwyth!
Posted by: Clive Hicks-Jenkins | July 08, 2010 at 02:19 AM
not cirque de soleil--cirque eloize, which i loved deeply. "nomade," in montreal at the february highlights festival a few years back. i loved the european rag tag circus feel of it, the amazing acrobatics, the guy on the unicycle briefly became my Secret Boyfriend, and the clarinet and fiddle band my soundtrack.
Posted by: laurie | July 10, 2010 at 03:30 PM
ahem, to clarify: by secret boyfriend, i mean secret to him, too.
i admired him from afar.
Posted by: laurie | July 10, 2010 at 03:31 PM
The first time was in So Cal when they first started touring (I think) close to 20 years ago, and twice here in Portland. I probably won't go again, or not for a long while, but was happy to have been able to take my mom, and sit in the 2nd row, just off center, with no seat in front of my mom. The maestro winked at her when she lead the standing ovation. Wrote a short prose piece about it, contrasting a different circus memory from my childhood.
Posted by: Deb | July 10, 2010 at 09:22 PM