Le Normandie Drummondville

... it throughout the chaos that is the Trans Canada Highway in the throes of being rebuilt (stimulus money, don’t you know) through Montreal, and out into the mind-numbing dreariness of the south shore of the St. Lawrence river and valley. Total monotony was avoided by way of two-way radios in each vehicle, through which we entertained each other with witty commentary on the passing scene, and alerts concerning unexpected road turns and constabulary ...

... suis allé quêter une chambre pas cher. Pas cher pour un 4 étoiles c'est 110$ mais je l'ai pris quand même! Rien de trop beau pour les cyclotouristes!
Disons que mon camping à 19$ ne me manque pas! haha!
J'ai profité de la piscine en masse, je me mets la tête dans l'air climatisé et je me fais masser le genou par la femme de chambre!

Poc poc mon poulet arrive!
Mmmmmm le poulet et la nuit seront bons!


PS: merci à tous pour vos commentaires!

... peek. And we could see one set of <> (waterfalls) so we decided to hike out on the rocks to get a better look. Not an especially good idea since in my eagerness to just relax, I purposely left my runners at the apartment, which would have been more helpful than my 1$ flip flops from dollarama for hiking. Anyways, we manage to get half way to the second chute when Amanda spots a giant spider which kind of ruined the ...

Désolée mes amis et ma fam!

There was great confusion last weekend, and I didn't actually end up going to le Parc de la Mauricie. Which is a little sad but I think I will live.

Cette vendredi, me and my friend Candice are going to head to a sugar cabin. Apparently, this is where our maple syrup comes from. It should be interesting. Pictures WILL be posted. Unless its très ...

... to go back to Quebec to tour solo. The big kicker is I will have to explain that all in french. Which will be um tres interessant. So this Samedi, we woke up early (sigh, yes early) and caught the bus to the Notre-Dame Cathedral here. It wasnt as nice in the church, but the grounds were very pretty. Then we caught another bus to centre-ville where we were supposed to take a ...

... approached us. We both thought we would have an extra hard time for having looked at the dog, thinking that the agent would be suspicious of our interest. However, when the agent arrived at our car he told us "I've noticed you were interested in Truman". He then took out a small card from his pocket and said "I normally only give these to kids" and handed us over a small card with the picture of the dog and all the information ...

... sur Saint-Laurent, puis remonter sur Beaubien, vers la station. Hourra. Le problème, c'est que mes connaissances du dense réseau routier montréalais ne me permettent pas, loin de là, d'interpréter ce charabia complaisant mais somme toute fort juste. Après avoir viré à droite sur le boulevard Saint-Michel (première erreur), je tente de revenir sur mes pas, l'agressivité grimpant en moi (la rage au volant n'est plus loin), et je rejoins la 40, que je prends ...

... see the progress of our restoration on a photo archives site : http://members17.clubphoto.com/caroline 774361/guest-5.phtml in the albums 53 and 53b. Sorry, some text might be in French or English or even a mixture of both! Vive le Quebec! We are still on target, as seen on our busy schedule, to leave saturday morning for Newfoundland with our brand newly restored westfalia...

... said that if I like it here and if i enjoy the "oldness" of the city that much, I will love Quebec City even more. I can't wait to come back! I wish I was staying longer... oh well it was TOTALLY worth staying the extra day... and even if I don't get the job I for sure won't be disappointed that I flew all the way out here because I was surprised at how much I liked this place. Woo-woo for Montreal! Au Revoir mes amis... a la voyage prochaine!

Nous sommes arrivés à Montréal! In fact, we arrived more than a week ago now. Je pense que Montréal est une ville unique et très amusement. I love the French influence, it's great practice for my upcoming stop in Paris! In Calgary, I had lined up a room in an apartment here for our two week stay, which I was a little dubious about as I'd never met the character we were renting it from, and I didn't know exactly where it was. For all I knew we'd be ...