Tamtams: It's Like A Park, But With Added Bongo.

Summer Sundays in Montreal see all of humanity head to the monument to Sir George-Etienne Cartier for an outdoor hand-drum party known as the tamtams. The weather today was an amazing 30degrees, and boy, could you tell. The shade of the trees was the only place to be, and when a guy came around handing out free popsicles, the only answer was YES [but not to the grape flavour one]. Free things seem to be a recurring feature of Montreal: only this morning we had been given a free bottle of Coke Zero and a few bars of Hershey's chocolate when we came out of the Metro. I ain't complaining. Meanwhile, back at the tamtams, everyone was happily co-existing, taking in the music and passive-smoking weed. It has such a laid-back atmosphere, and anywhere that people are giving out free ice lollies has got to be a nice place to while away a Sunday afternoon.

Photographic evidence of drum action:

And there were some totally rad juggling guys:

But everyone's highlight was blatantly the dog in a dress:

 Purple gingham suits her better than the average human.
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