Thursday, July 29, 2010

je parle francais affreux



The keyboard in this hotel has a malfunctioning space bar so this message while be short. Check out Auberge des Glacis (http://aubergedesglacis.com/ ) in Quebec - oh my did we eat well. The people at the inn were so kind - they did not roll their eyes at my terrible French. Good food and wine is a universal language.  To keep balance in the road trip universe we will stay at Days Inn or Super 8 (yes, they have these in Canada) for a few days. My French isn't good enough to find a place that sells food we can use for camping so no camping in Quebec province. High school history classes were too abstract for me to understand  anything more than "memorize these names, events, and place names". Now that my own eyes see the lay of this land and the waterways, I understand why the French and English fought for it. We are now in Ontario.

[Note to self: remember to mention the Potato Museum in New Brunswick.]

1 Comments:

At July 30, 2010 4:01 PM , Blogger gerard said...

I warned you about wet summer air in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.

No side trip to L'Anse aux Meadows?

In June, heading west from Maine, I opted from Montreal for 117/11 to Thunder Bay. Road markers call that "Trans Canada Nort". It crosses Canadian Shield country and avoids blemishes in Ontario.

Gerard

 

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