Another day of travelling completed, Labrador City really is a long way from Karratha and we are not even there yet. We arrived in Montreal at 4pm after a four hour flight from Vancouver plus the three hour time difference. We bumped into a friend from Rio Tinto Aluminium at the airport, he was on the same flight as us so it was good to have a chat about living in Canada. Our first impressions of Montreal are that it is a concrete jungle, grey, untidy with lots of construction underway, this is in stark contrast to Vancouver which is very clean, green and tidy (probably because of the 2010 winter Olympics). Montreal city does have a more European feel about it though and I guess after a day out tomorrow we might have some more positive things to say.
One thing that has really annoyed us so far is the tipping, we are never sure about when to tip and how much. So far we have not experienced service that really deserves a bonus payment but we are not sure if it really works like that. When we do tip we feel that we have been ripped off. Any advice from experienced tippers out there??
Wood carvings at Grouse Mountain, Vancouver.
I have to say that both in Canada and the States it is customary to tip. It is usually 10% of the bill. If the services was good you can tip more and if the services was poor you can give them a bit less.
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