The antithesis of Urban Montréal is Romantic Quebec. Of course we just walked around inside the fortified city that grew up in the 1700’s. We had flashbacks to our introduction to the old-world flavor of our two vacations in France in 1990 and 1999. The streets are narrow and crooked. The cars park on the sidewalk. If a truck is delivering something it simply blocks the whole street. The difference is the boutiques. They are geared for the tourist not the residents. The tee shirts tout everything from cannabis to beer. I like the one that showed a line drawing of a lady shopper and said. “Men are from Mars, Women are from Visa.”
After a while we got tired of walking up and down the hills of Quebec and were looking for a restaurant. I tried one restaurant with outside seating and pointed to Sherbet and asked if the dog was welcome. The very attractive young lady hostess screwed her face into this most remarkably unpleasant looking scowl and curtly told us no. Another block down the street Al was leading the troupe when the hostess standing in the door of another restaurant asked him if we were looking for lunch. He pointed at Sherbet and asked “What about him?” This young lady offered to care for him while we ate. You can guess which restaurant we ate in. Sherbet got the royal treatment too, lots of attention and a saucer of water.
Yesterday we arrived in our campground in Levis in time to have a pleasant afternoon relaxing under our awning and I began the re-assembly of the bicycle. We all had a nice leisurely supper under the awning and were just finishing up some ice-cream when it started pelting down rain. Suddenly a ferocious down-draft from the storm cloud hit the park and shattered tree limbs and threatened to rip our awnings off of our RV’s. Somehow we got them all rolled up and secured, but not before we got drenched to the skin. We also had to draw in the sliders because the wind was driving the rain up under the protective awnings and it started leaking inside. Actually the rain cooled things off. It was a welcome relief from the hot, humid weather the area has been suffering under. We actually had a blanket on our bed last night.
We are headed down the St. Lawrence Seaway to the Ocean over the next couple days, so we expect the weather to be much cooler and the scenery to be even more spectacular.
Today we welcome two new families to our readers. Joan Rauch of Union, WA and Bud and Faye Riback from Vancouver BC. These are friends of Al and Audrey.
I usually include a photo from our adventures. This one will be a mural using Trompe-L’oil technique.
Judy and I send our love to all of our friends and relations. Bye now.
